http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/f03314f4fc1dfced499f565960e8a8aa.PDF c2561425470d0fba9cc8b3cf8e4301e1 PDF Text Text Vel. XXVII No. 2S Sl^ARERS^LOG (OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE Nov. M 19«S SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SlU Calls For NLRB Control Over Runaway Crews In U.S. Trades Page 3 SlU Of Canada Ship Sinks—None Injured Page 2 GAnMAU URGBS SHIP BRGAKOUT PAGE 2 sill Great Lakes District Signs New 3-Year Contract Page 8 �SEAFARERS Pag* Tww November 2t, INI LOG House MM Commiffec Head Blasts 'Stalling Garmatz Seeks Reactivation Of 300 More Reserve Ships WASHINGTON—Acting Chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, Edward Garmatz (D.-Md.), has again urged the Maritime Administration and MSTS to reactivate another 300 ships from the reserve fleet to help meet the shipping emergency in Vietnam. In separate telegrams to ^ Maritime Administrator Nich­ are nowhere near as adequate for Department and the Maritime Ad­ olas Johnson and to MSTS military emergency duties as the ministration to provide a detailed HE FORT By Paul Hall Representative Edward Garmatz (D.-Md.), the acting chairman of the House Conunlttce oa Merchant Marine and Fisheries, made a recommendation recently which would go a long way towards allevlat^g the urgent need for U.S. bottonu to haul milita^ supplies to Viebiam. The Congressmen suggested that 300 reserve fleet ships be reacti­ vated as soon as possible from the layup fleet to meet the nation's defense needs. Such s move is both essential and long overdue. In telegrams to Maritime Administrator Nicholas Johnson and to MSTS Commander Vice-Admiral Glynn R. Donaho, Garmatz pinpointed the heart of the matter when he noted that the reserve fleet is main­ tained for emergency use and pointed out that the present shortage of shipping to supply our fighting forces in Vietnam is certainly an emergency. Although the urgency of the situation grows each day, with vital military cargoes piling up on piers, the Government continues to drag its heels on the matter of breaking additional vessels out of the mothball fleet. MSTS admits that there is insufficient tonnage available to keep vital military cargoes moving to Vietnam and is even claiming that it is necessary to charter foreign-flag shipping to carry these cargoes. It baa been proved however that chartering foreign-flag tonnage is no solution. Of approximately 12 instances in which foreign-flag ships have been chartered to carry cargoes to Vietnam only half of the cargoes sailed as planned. In half a dozen cases action by foreign governments or refusal of crews to sail military cargoes into the war zone delayed shipment of the supplies. The sad thing is that the present situation is not new or unex­ pected. ' In every major defense crisis faced by the United States since the First World War, the U.S. has been faced with a heavy demand for additional shipping to meet the emergency and in every ease the active U.S. merchant fleet has been insufficient for the task. In spite of warnings from maritime labor, the maritime industry, members of Congress and other Interested parties everywhere, the American-flag merchant marine has been allowed to dwindle more and more—till today the U.S. faces what can only be termed a shipping crisis." At the end of World War II the reserve fleet was established to create a large pool of government-owned tonnage which could be kept in a high state of preservation and called upon in time of emer­ gency to provide needed tonnage quickly. Although the maritime industry has pointed out on numerous occasions that this reserve fleet concept was far from an adequate substitute for a strong active merchant fleet capable of meeting U.S. defense needs, great effort and expense was invested in mothballing these vessels. Adequate shipping must be broken out of mothballs now. The pace of battle in Vietnam increases daily and vast amounts of supplies will be needed In the future. If shipping is in short supply now it will be even shorter In coming months. Action must be taken im­ mediately to assure that sufficient ships are available to supply our fighting men and maintain vital worldwide trade routes. Foreign flag ships won't do the Job. description of every vessel in the reserve fleet. This Information will provide the committee with knowledge of the condition of each ship and whether the Defense De­ partment is considering its use for emergency purposes. Garmatz's letter emphasized the vital importance of the U.S. merchant marine in providing sealift capacity to supply overseas military efforts. He declared that he was "astounded" that no concise shipping plan had been created to supply American troops engaged in fighting communism in Vietnam. The Maryland Democrat was also sharply critical of the role played by the Defense Depart­ ment's Military Sea Transporta­ tion Service. He said that while the MSTS had the responsibility of providing such a detailed plan, it seemed more interested in pubiicizing present and future mari­ Foes Plan ^Last-Ditch* Fight time shortages than working on plans to resolve them. Most citizens, he pointed out, thought that such plans were already in existence many months ago. Another point which drew heavy criticism from Garmatz was the practice of the Defense Depart­ ment trying to charter U.S.-flag The fight for one man, one vote representation is being won ve.ssels at less than the market rate. He accused McNamara's de­ in the states. partment of trying to fight the Nearly half the 50 legislatures have already been reappor­ war in Vietnam "with pennies to tioned to meet court standards buy shipping services." —many as a result of lawsuits Senate Republican leader failed The SIU has also criticized the hroupht by unions. A state- to receive the needed two-thirds lack of action by Government by-state survey shows nearly every majority In the Senate this year, agencies in reactivating the neces­ legislature will be based on popu­ but it has been put on the calen­ sary number of vessels from the dar for the second session. It reserve fleet to satisfy military lation by next election day. would allow states to apportion supply requirements in the present But the battle isn't over. one house of a legislature on fac­ emergency. Money and influence are being tors other than population. massed in a final desperate effort The urgency of the shipping Most observers are convinced shortage is reflected by attempts to reverse the one man, one vote tide through a constitutional that if the Dirksen drive is again of the MSTS to charter foreignamendment, and congressional ob­ halted, it will be impossible there­ flag vessels to carry military MONTREAL—The SIU of Canada-contracted Lawrenceservers see the next few months after to turn the clock back. cargoes to Vietnam on the grounds as critical. that there are insufficient U.S.cliffe Hall, a giant $8 million Canadian laker christened only Wisconsin's Senator William The goal of what Senator Paul Proxmire (D) considers that mal­ flag ships available. However, in last May, sank in 36 feet of water off He d'Orleans on the St. II. Douglas (D.-Ill.) termed a apportionment "has been seriously the 12 Instances in which foreignLawrence River 15 miles be--* "well - financed, last - ditch cam­ wounded." But he cautioned in a flag vessels have been chartered low Quebec City in Montreal. vessel Simek on November 16. to carry supplies to Vietnam, the paign" is to switch enough votes recent speech against underrating There were no casualties. in the Senate and House to revive "the forces which profit from min­ crews or the government involved The 23,000 ton lake freighter went down folio-wing a collision The crew of the Lawrencecliffe the Dirksen amendment. The con­ ority control of the state legisla­ have refused to sail to the war with the 6,000-ton Saguenay Line Hall escaped unharmed into zone at least six times. stitutional change proposed by the tures." their lifeboats and were cared for Proxmire warned that the "next in a farmhouse on the island, until few months . . . will see a campaign their transfer back to the main­ land. Nov. 26, '65 Vol. XXVII, No. 25 of very large proportion directed against individual senators and Official Publication of the SIUNA After the Lawrencecliffe Hall was Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes & Inland Waten representatives in an effort to struck, her captain headed her di­ change their votes." District. AFL-CIO rectly for shore, in order to ground Executive Board the ship, rather than risk the Running the campaign, he said, PAUL HALL, President possibility of sinking in the chan­ "will he the well-known California CAL TANNEH EARL SHEPAI» nel. Although the captain was able public relations firm of Whittaker Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President WASHINGTON—Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D.-Md.) will to beach the vessel, she slid back, AL KEBR LINDSEY WILLIAMS & Baxter, which for years led the be the new chairman of the House Mercfliant Marine Committee when rolled on her side and sank, mo­ Sec.-Treaa. Vice-President fight against the medicare bill." ROB. A. MATTHEWS AL TANNER Congress convenes again In January, 1966. He will be replacing the late ments after the crew got off in Vice-President Vice-President Large-scale fund-raising is al­ Herbert C. Bonner (D.-N.C.) who died recently at the age of 74 after their lifeboats. HERBERT BRAND ready under way, he said, and serving as Merchant Marine Committee chairman for many years. Director of Organizing and The Federal government ice­ "conservative interest groups win Garmatz, who represents Maryland's third congressional district, Publications breaker Montcalm was dispatched be able to muster a massive cam­ was first elected to the House in 1947, and has won re-election ever Managing Editor: MIKE POLLACK; Asst Editor: NATHAN SKYER; Staff Writers: paign compared to the resources since. He will be assuming the chairmanship at a time which is to the area soon after the collision ROBERT ARONSON, MELVIN PURVIS; Art of those who would defend the particularly critical to the future of the maritime industry. Aware and stood by to offer assistance, Editor: BERNARD SEAMAN. cause of representative govern­ of the significant decisions which must be made In ihe comdng year, but the crew was able to abandon ment." He added: he told reporters recently that the committee faces one of its "most ship without help. Later, the Mont­ calm returned to Quebec to bring "It is easily understood what important" years. wreck buoys to mark the site of the One of the most important tasks ahead of the Merchant Marine sinking. a representative state government may mean to the very powerful Committee in the coming session will be consideration of the recom­ The Lawrencecliffe Hall was Published biweekly at the headquarter interests which now have an al­ mendations of the Interagency Task Force Report on Merchant Marine of the Seafarers Infernatlonal Union, At bound for Conneault, Ohio, with a Policy. Garmatz has already declared that one of his first Jobs will be lantie. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Wafert liance with the minority control­ load of iron ore when she was District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, ling state legislatures, and who to thoroughly familiarize himself with the controversial study. Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Tel. HYaclnth 9-6600. Second class postage paid at the Port would regret to see state legisla­ The task force recommendations have already been unanimously struck on the starboard side by the Office In Brooklyn, NY, under the Act tures represent the needs and rejected by the President's Maritime Advisory Committee on the freighter Sunek. The bow of the of Aug. 24. 191i views of the great majority of tax­ grounds that they would seriously injure the U.S.-flag merchant marine Sunek ripped a hole in the Law(Contiilued on page 111; payers «nd consumers." ' and drastically reduce employment opportunities for American seamen. Commander Vice-Admiral Glynn R. Donaho, Garmatz renewed a rec­ ommendation he had made some time ago to President Johnson. Garmatz emphasized that the re­ serve fleet is maintained for emer­ gency use, and he observes that "certainly the present shortage (of ships) is an emergency." In another letter, to Defense Sec­ retary Robert McNamara, Garmatz scored what he called Defense De­ partment "stalling" in breaking out vessels from the Reserve Fleet. "Never before to my knowledge has there been such a stalling tech­ nique involved in the breaking out of vessels from the reserve fleet," Garmatz said. He noted that the Defense De­ partment has been issuing state­ ments that it is too expensive to re-activate ships from the reserve fleet, "If these vessels In general public was led to believe," Garmatz said, "then steps should be taken to selectively break out those ships that are most worthwhile. "1 cannot condone our laid-up fleet being considered part of our 'national defense reserve' only to find that we have been oversold in the nomenclature." The House Merchant Marine Committee Chairman also hit the failure of the Defense Department to develop a "concise maritime logistics plan" to keep American GIs supplied in Vietnam, and promised a full-scale investigation by his committee of how U.S. shipping is meeting military re­ quirements in Vietnam. He asked McNamara for a full accounting of his department's need for shipping and plans to meet them. In his letter to McNamara, Garmatz called upon the Defense One Man, One Vote Drive Nearing Victory In States Canadian SIU Ship Sinks—None Injured SEAFARERS LOG V' ^ ^ \ Y \ Garmatz To Head MM Unit During 'Most Important'Year) �NirtiBber t«, MM SEAFARERS Far* Thre* LOG Death Toll Stands At 89 In Runaway Cruise Ship Yarmouth Castle Sinking MIAMI—A Coast Guard investigation of the sinking of the Yarmouth Castle got un­ derway here this week. The runaway-flag cruise ship burned and sank about 120 miles east of here in the early morning of November 13 with a loss of 89 lives. A fire raged out of control aboard the 38-year-^ old Panamanian - registered hind the Yarmouth Castle at about gathered on the starboard deck. vessel for almost five hours 2 a.m. Saturday morning when The Bahama Star lowered her own SlU President Paul Hall addresses representatives of maritime labor, management and government at recent Shipbuilders Conference in Washington. The three-day conference was aimed at developing a legislative and ad­ ministrative program to aid the declining American ship­ building industry. Action To Save U.S. Maritime Urged At Shipbuilders Parley WASHINGTON—A strong American-flag merchant marine and shipbuilding industry was called for here by top leaders of maritime labor, the maritime industry, shipbuilding and the Government, gathered at-t— a three-day National Ship­ minding the delegates of the Im­ building Conference called portant role maritime has always by the Brotherhood of Boilermak­ ers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers. The conference was aimed at de­ veloping a legislative and adminis­ trative program to help the declin­ ing American shipbuilding indus­ try. Addressing the assembled dele­ gates, Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey called upon the mari­ time industry to unite to help the Administration and Congress form­ ulate a policy that will result in a "strong, modern, up-to-date mer­ chant marine." "For our international security, for our international peace, this na­ tion needs and must have available for eveiy minute of its life a strong, modern, well-equipped and wellmanned" Navy and merchant ma­ rine, Humphrey declared. He assured the delegates that the White House has not determined any policy regarding the maritime industry yet and that their views would be taken into consideration when such policy is developed. This was a reference to the Interagency Maritime Task Force Report, which called for buildiig U.S. vessels abroad and allowing foreign-flag ships in the U.S. trade. Russell K. Berg, Boilerm'ikers President, called for united action to defeat determined efforts of the task force to get its proposals leg­ islated by pongress. "Unless we maintain our mer­ chant marine and keep our ship­ building skills, we will be at the mercy of foreign tonnage and be subject to maritime blackmail," he warned. In his keynote speech. Berg noted that the task force re­ port had been unanimously reject­ ed by labor, management and public members of the President's Mari­ time Advisory Committee. He summoned the three-day con­ ference, Berg said, to unite all seg­ ments of the shipping industry behind programs to revive "a sick and distressed and apparently doomed industry." Also participating in the con­ ference was H. Page Groton, ex­ ecutive director of the Boiler­ makers. \FL - CIO President George Meany reaffirmed American labor's strong support, for a strong U.S. maritime industry in a speech re­ played In the security of our nation both in peacetime and wartime. The labor movement, he said, stands with those "who believe op­ eration under the U.S. flag repre­ sents a value and a degree of se­ curity that cannot be assured by foreign owners or crews, or by run­ away-flag ships under the control of American tax-evaders who place profits ahead of their moral re­ sponsibilities as employers and citi­ zens." "Experience shows," Meany re­ minded his listeners, "that in every maritime emergency since the turn of the century, the shipyards of the U.S. have been called upon to main­ tain and revive, not only our own, but the merchant marines of our allies as well. I will continue to be­ lieve, until convinced otherwise, that the capacity to produce, main­ tain and replace a strong efficient merchant fleet is fully as important as the fleet itself." "The United States flag belongs on the high seas," he said, "and American ships, built in American yards and manned by American seamen are worth whatever the price may be." SIU President Paul Hall, who Is also President of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, noted that the maritime industry is the big exception to the nation's pros­ perity, with American-flag ships handling only 9 percent of the na­ tion's export-import commerce. The task force report, he charged, would bring this figure down to a mere 4 percent. Again referring to the task force report. Hall said, "We're going to fight them down the line. The in­ dustry's enemies will have to go to the halls of Congress to get this done and that's where we're going to beat them." One of the most stinging attacks on present maritime policy tvas made by former Senator John Marshall Butler, who charged Fed­ eral maritime authorities with "penny - pinching theorizing and double-talk" and with proposals that "herald the eventual doom'; of the country's merchant marine. Butler warned that anyone who "gives away" any part of our mer­ chant or' naval shipbuilding to yards • in other countries would (Continued on page 6) before she keeled over and sank about 80 miles northeast of Nas­ sau, Bahamas. Over 460 passengers and crewmembers /Were rescued by the cruise ship Bahama Star and the Finnish freighter Finnpulp. Both vessels sighted flames and smoke aboard the stricken vessel and sped to the scene. The Yarmouth Castle did not send out an SOS. The Bahama Star departed from Miami on Friday afternoon, No­ vember 12, shortly after the Yar­ mouth Castle, also bound for Nas­ sau. She was about six miles be­ billows of smoke were seen rising from the vessel. Steaming alongside the burning ship at full speed, the Bahama Star passed three lifeboats full of Yarmouth Castle survivors and ad­ vised them that she would pick them up after taking the remain­ ing passengers off the burning ship. Burning Fiercely The Yarmouth Castle was burn­ ing fiercely in the upper deck for­ ward, with flames spreading rapid­ ly throughout the length of the ship. Most of the passengers were To Insure Union Safety Standards SIU Urges NLRB (^nkol Of Runaway - Flag Crews Engaged In U.S. Trade lifeboats and called to the trapped passengers to jump. As.they did they were taken aboard the Baha­ ma Star's lifeboats. During this time the Finnpulp also came alongside the burning ship and began to take survivors directly off the Yarmouth Castle's deck. The Finnpulp stayed along­ side until her paint began to smoke and bum from the intense heat, then pulled away and began to take survivors from the water. Intense Heat The fire burned fiercely out of control and flames were visible 20 miles away. Coast Guard pilots re­ ported from the scene that the heat was so intense it could be felt through their cockpit windows as they flew 200 feet high, 500 feet from the vessel. Black smoke rose to more /than 4,000 feet. "It was a terrible sight," said one helicopter pilot. "The ship was a mass of flame from bow to st^ You could see flames through n* anchor chain hole all the way beck to the aftermost portholes." At 6:03 a.m. the vessel rolled over and sank quickly with a great NEW YORK—SIU President Paul Hall has called on Con­ roar of steam from her burst/ng gress to amend the U.S. labor laws in order to give the NLRB boilers. jurisdiction over crews of foreign-flag vessels substantially The most severely injured survi­ engaged in American com-+ vors were airlifted from the rescue merce. The SIU president de­ and other U.S. maritime unions have vessels at sea and taken to hospi­ clared that this action would over the years organized the crews tals in Nassau. The remainder ar­ prevent disasters such as the sink­ of many runaway-flag vessels. This rived later aboard the rescue ships. ing of the Yarmouth Castle, the right has been upheld by the NLRB. Poor Safety Standards American-owned, Panamaniainflag However, in February, 1963 the Supreme Court ruled the NLRB Survivors told grim tales of panic cruise ship which sank in the Caribbean with a ioss of 89 lives, did not have jurisdiction over these and poor safety standards aboaid after being destroyed by a fatal vessels. He explained that this de­ the Yarmouth Castle. They charged cision was handed down after a that fire alarms did not ring, the fire. number of Federal agencies, such automatic sprinkler system did not Hall said that the SIU will urge as the State, Defense and Justice work, lifeboats stuck in their davits the next session of Congress to departments, had intervened on the and could not be lowered, and that amend the labor laws to make it side of the runaway ship operators fire hoses lay useless on the deck clear that the NLRB has jurisdic­ who were evading U.S. wages, safe­ for lack of water pressure. tion over the crews of foreign-flag ty standards and taxes. Others charged that there were vesseis, the bulk of whose sailings Hall pointed out that in its deci­ no life-jackets in the cabins, there are in U.S. commerce. He explained that this kind of amendment would sion, the Supreme Court said that were no life rings on deck and that allow U.S. maritime unions to Congress had the authority to give there had been no fire drills. Some serve as bargaining representative jurisdiction over these vessels to crewmembers were praised for heroism in giving up their lifefor these crews. It would also en­ the NLRB, if it wished to do so. able unions to insist upon the main­ "Since that time," he declared, jackets to passengers. tenance of the safety standards pre­ "the SIU has continuously insisted "The crew members who knew vailing on U.S.-flag ships, he added. upon action to give such jurisdic­ what to do were very helpful," said one survivor, "but some of them tion to the NLRB." SIU Demands Safety didn't seem to know what to do." Continuing Campaign "In our own union," the SIU Another passenger told of how president said, "adequate safety As an example of this continued standards are required as a part of campaign, the SIU president re­ his fully loaded lifeboat had to be the contract, and no vessel can op­ called that as recently as October paddled away from the sinking ship erate without complying with these 7, at the last meetii^g of President like a canoe because the oarlocks contractual requirements for ship­ Johnson's Maritime Advisory Com­ were missing. board safety. In the training of our mittee in Washington, the SIU recFormer SIU Ship seamen, also, great stress is placed commended that appropriate steps The Yarmouth Castle is the for­ upon safety, including an effective should be taken to provide the mer American-flag ship Evangeline, lifeboat training program." NLRB with definitive jurisdiction launched in Philadelphia in 1927. over runaway-flag vessels in Amer­ She was manned by the SIU for President Hall stated that the ican commerce. If this jurisdiction crews, as well as the public which were granted, he said, crews of many years while operating under uses these ships would have addi­ these vessels would be represented the house flag of the Eastern Steam­ tional insurance against such disas­ in collective bargaining by the un­ ship Corp., before transferring to foreign-flag registry. Thirty-odd ters if crewmembers aboard run­ ion of their choice. years ago the 365-foot, 5.002-ton away-flag vessels, such as the Yar­ Hall declared, "The Yarmouth vessel was one of the "class" cruise mouth Castle had the protection of American maritime union repre­ Castle disaster tragically drama­ vessels making regular voyages be­ sentation. He pointed out that tizes the whole issue of the I'un- tween New York and Nassau. many of these crews have indicated away-flag ships which seek to evade During World War II she was a desire for this representation in U.S. regulations and laws. used at, a troopship in the Pacific the past. "This incident also underscores and was later used as a hospital the urgent need for appropriate ship. Refitted after the war she Agencies Backed Runaways legislation, such as we have recom­ made some cruises to Nassau and Reviewing past efforts to deal mended, in the interests of the gen­ stood idle for long periods, until with the runaway-flag vessel prob­ eral public as well as the crewmem­ the aging ship vyas sold and re­ lem, Hall reported that the SIU bers on these ships," he concluded. registered under foreign flag. �Pag* Poor November 28. 1965 SEAfAktkS' to& "Sfory^OfA^rijljant^w Seafarer Thanks USPHS Hospital For Gift Of Life By Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Afiantfa The SIU has received telegrams of thanks from the United Brewery Workers for aid and support given by Philadelphia Seafarers in NEW YORK—The vital role played by the U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals in the defeatingUnion a Teamster raid on Distillery Workers Local 263 at the health not only of U.S. seamen but of the entire community was pointed out recently Puhlicker Distillery. The SIU made its facilities available in the llgbt in a letter from Seafarer Art Lomas—who owes his life today to a difficult and dangerous to defeat the raid by the IBT. -f-= operation performed by sur-'*George Dietzman, international for the next two weeks. We expect geons at the USPHS hospital day . . . This is medical and sur- staff who hi.Hiiped him through a representative of the Brewery to crew the C. S. Baltimore during trying and dangerous period. gidal care at its finest." on Staten Island. Workers said, "through the sup­ the coming period and have "One does not meet this kind port, cooperation and overall as­ several ships due in transit. Dur­ Lomas' condition was first diag­ Lomas credits the Staten Island nosed as aortic aneurysm by Doc­ of people every day," Lomas sistance of the SIU, this victory ing the past two weeks we paid USPHS hospital, its staff of sur­ tor Lynn Fulkerson of the Staten afvows. was made possible." A second wire off three vessels, signed on three geons and teohnioians, their thor­ Lomas is at home now, still re­ of thanks came from Martin and had six in transit. Presently, Island hospital's chest clinic, who ough knowledge of the latest in­ consulted one of the hospital's cuperating fixHn his ordeal, and Gross, Jr., regional director of the we have the Alamar.. the Losmar novations in surand the C. S. Baltimore laid up. instead of looking forward to a Brewery Workers. chief vascular surgeons. Dr. Robert c a 1 techniques, maximum of only two years of life Philadelpfaia and the modern Minor. Dr. Minor had recently at best, the future now looks Employees at Puhlicker gave equipment avail­ studied the techniques for correc­ Shipping has been very good bright for him, his wife, daughter the Brewery Workers 460 votes able there, for the tion of aortic aneurysm developed and grandchildren. here and is expected to hold and the IBT 355 in a recent NLRB successful opera­ by Dr. Michael DeBakey, and de­ steady during the coming weeks. representation election. The list of people to whom tion to correct an cided he should operate. . He Steve Mosokowski, who has been At the November meeting of the "aneurysm" — a pulled no j>unches however, and Lomas wishes to express gratitude sailing with the SIU for the past Informed Lomas that because of New York Central Labor Council is a lengthy one. In addition to the weakening of a major artery from other complicating factors, he hospital's doctors and staff, Lomas the SIU introduced a motion 25 years, has taken a good rest which passed unanimously urging and put in a little work on repair­ the heart—^which could guarantee only a 50-50 writes: Lomas threatened to chance of success. "I thank the Union and my fel­ that the Council go on record to ing his home. He is now at the cost Lomas his life. low Seafarers for the donation of advise the State, Justice and Com­ Philadelphia Hall ready to tackle Delicate Operation blood necessary for my surgery. I merce Departments of its vigorous the firbD bos'n's job to come up. Dr. Minor, assisted by Dr. James thank the visiting welfare repre­ opposition to the use of runawayIn his letter to the LOG, Lomas Boston expresses nothing but praise for F. Densler, performed the delicate sentatives for their courtesy and flag ships in American commerce, Shipping has the aurgeons and staff at the operation In which the damaged assistance, which helped to cheer because they constitute a threat to been on the slow Staten Island USPHS hospital and section of the aorta was removed things along. The SIU has always thfe safety and welfare of Ameri­ bell during the he points out the importance of the Mid replaced by nylon tubing. The been tops in its consideration for can seamen and a danger to the last period, hut SlU'a continuing to fight to pre­ aorta Is the largest artery in the its hospitalized members — I American public — as evidenced is expected to vent the proposed dosing of these body" and oarrles blood fo-om the know." most recently by the Yarmouth pick up over the USPHS hospitals all around the heart to the rest of the body. The Noting recent proposals to close Castle disaster. Our motion further coming weeks. country. delicate surgery was a complete stated that operators resort to the USPHS hospitals, Lomas John Knias, a "This is my story of a brilliant success. writes to fellow Seafarers: "I not runaway-flag vessels to evade U.S. 20-year SIU vet­ safety standards, taxes and union Lomas also has high praise for only urge, I plead wth the mem­ surgeon operation," Lomas writes, eran whose last "performed at the USPHS hospi­ surgeooMi Fredidck Rodesto and bership to take this thing seriously, wages and conditions and that the ship was the KHIOS federal agencies cited have con­ tal, Staten Island. Without fan­ Amos Lewis, who took care of him to contact their local congressmen Steel Navigator, fare or publidty, similar success­ dining the recovery period, along and state senators, to get their sistently used their influence to is waiting for an oiler's slot. perpetuate the practices of run­ ful operations happen here every with everyone else on the hospital friends to do so as well. In order Norfolk away shipping against Hie interests to protest any such closings. of the American public and the Shipping has been on the slow "Remember, it may he your American seamen. The SIU has hell here, hut the future looks turn next for a spell of illness, and always and will continue to fight without these marine hospitals all the practice of short-changing brighter with a number of coal seamen will have a tougher time. American shipping under the ships due in for pay off. Take the advice of an oldtmer who cover of foreign flags. Puerto Rico has had many spells of hospital­ Puerto Rican shipping has been Baltimore ization in the past." very good, and the port is in need By Lindsey Williams. Vice-President, Gulf Area The aortic aneurism corrective Shipping has been on the slow of oilers, firemen, watertenders New Orleans Mayor Victor H. Schiro will once again be the Demo­ technique is only one' of the bell for tile past two weeks, hut and electricians. The port shipped cratic candidate for Mayor in the April, 1966 New Orleans general prospecte look extremely bright out 47 men during the last period. (Continued on page 11) elections. Mayor Schiro's victory in the Democratic Party Primary Elections virtually assured him of the mayorallty, since he wlE face no Republican opposition in the-f election. The SIU took an active trict of' the International Long­ role in support of Mayor Schiro's shoreman's Association. The affair primary campaign, and is now urg­ was sponsored by the West Coast ing Seafarers and their families to Council of the AFL-CIO Maritime back all labor-endorsed candidates Trades Department, SIU represen­ in coming primaries. tatives and friends of Brother Mas­ Mobile sey from the entire Gulf area at­ The SIU Hall in Mobile was host tended. to the United Labor Council here Doing a little deer hunting while recently. The Council, which in­ on the beach, F. L. (Frog) Bartlett cludes just about all labor locals in is also getting in some time with the area, held its monthly meeting his wife and kids. Frog last sailed at the hall. aboard the Alcoa Reamer as chief Shipping in Mobile has been pro­ cook. Bosun Robert D. Schwarz is ceeding on the slow hell, hut is ex­ watching the Mobile hoard for a pected to pick up slightly in the good sharang job and enjoying the time with his wife and kids in their next few weeks. R. F. (Fete) Ray is on the beach Mobile home. Boh last shipped here after getting off the Inger. aboard the Inger as bosun. Nursing Pete, who has sailed in various a case of athritis. Earl Minton has deck department rating for the past been on the beach here for the past twenty years, makes his home in few months. A twenty year veteran Pascagoula. Also of the engine department, Earl off the Inger is hails from Escaptawpa, Mississippi New Orleans pumpman and deck engineer Jobs continue to move at a brisk Arthur Wither- pace in New Orleans. Ington. Arty is Tony Rodriguez is saying hello spending some to his friends around the New Or­ time with his leans Hall after a trip on the Del wife at their Sud. Tony will possibly take an­ home a few miles other Delta Line passenger ship out of Mobile. he likes the sort runs and the Witheringten He's set to take since South American trip. the right job when it comes along. Off the Del Mar and hack on the Robert McNay is a familiar and beach, Louie G'Leary is '.vailing for welcome sight around the Houston Hall. A longtime veteran of the en­ his ffd. Louie had an accident oh gine department. Boh is off the the ship and broke a couple of ribs. Smiling members of SIU Lifeboat Class No. 139 pose proudly for class photo after success­ Steel Scientist and waiting for a For the time being, he will take it fully completing lifeboat training course at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Grad­ pretty easy. trip to Japan. uates are (l-r, front row It Aroii McDonald and Angel Aguildr. Middle row: Evanigelos Houston Over 400 people attended a testi­ Leonfdis, Demlnick Brancocclo, Merrill Jehnt, Louis PlcUiait, Tommy McNeills, Frank J. Shipping in Houston is holding monial dinner-dance in Houston for PresH. Beck rowt Momiel Soboter, Georgo Cordero, Andrew Rovetrinf, Ckorles Inobnet, steady and the outlook is bright for Ralph A. Massey, president of the Steven Pelskman, end. Instructor Ami Bjorsson. the coming period. South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Dis­ Lifeboat Class No. 139 Casts Off �KmiW tt, im SEAFARtRS LOG Far* Fir* I :-.w-;v>:-:4c«mH Cook Henry Moitin slices up a "mess-o-pork chops" for the Steel Rover crew's lunch. The SlU-manned Steel Rover (Isthmian) docked at New York's Erie Basin on her recent return from the Persian Gulf, carrying general cargo. A LOG photographer accompanied SlU patrolmen to record the payoff. Ship s delegate D. A. "Rod" Ciork (right) and SlU patrolman Ed Mooney (standing) check out some overtime-pay rates according to new SlU contract with Isthmian paymaster Wally Hollwedel aboard the Steel Rover. Seafarer Simon Gutierez, baker, signs on the dotted line for payment in full as isthmian paymaster Pat Conlon looks on. • f- • :• Seafarer Jon Doro (right), bosun aboard the Steel Rover, joked with the paymaster as he signed f-ir his pay at fh'e end of thr voyage. IM a n u e i Horn, messman, saw to table service. Cook George Gibbon saw to it that the crew had plenty of good, hot soup. Baker Simon Gurierez adjusts galley scale to assure the proper proportions of ingredients. OilerCarios Torres takes care of one of many engine room chores aboard the Rover. Seafarers Al Brown (left), who sails in the engine department and George KeiiSi dsclc department, made use of time waiting for payoff to give the new S' ' agreement with contracted companies a thorough reading. D. Provefezionos, deck, wears big smile at payoff. Ship's delegate "Rod" Clark (left) discussed provisions of the hew SlU contract with patrol• man William Half before the-payoff.'»' Seafarers (l-r) G. Bonefonte, deckt Jock Wheeios and Frankio Rodriguez, both of the galley gang; and Son Tulso of the black gang. Raymond Friei (left), engine department, and John Charles, deck, took time out from pack­ ing their seabags to have this >phote<t itake^v �Pai« Sis SEAFARJ^RS LOG Nprember t9, 196i DISPATCHERS REPDRT'^Mantla, Oulf, Lake* ft Inlaml Watars Dlstrl«t November 6 to November 19 DECK DEPARTMENT QUESTION: Of fhe many ports that you hava visited, where did you find the weather most pleasant, and why? TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 1 4 New York 66 32 Philadelphia 11 5 Baltimore 20 8 Norfolk 8 5 Jacksonville 0 4 Tampa 4 3 Mobile 29 17 New Orleans 49 33 Houston 44 32 Wilmington 12 4 San Francisco .... 21 6 Seattle 7 20 Totals 288 157 TOTAL SHIPPED AU Groups Class A dassB dassd 4 0 0 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups 19 . 1 29 86 10 £05 70 Bernard rimovlcz: My personal Richard Hufford: I'm happiest 17 10 1 17 80 in New Orleans. It gets cold for a favorite is the Hawaiian Isles, 7 17 1 73 38 few weeks, but with its cool 1 1 0 24 20 never seally that nights and warm 2 0 3 9 8 cold. In fact, a daya. For my 0 1 1 7 0 little brisk weath­ money, it has 12 2 0 74 SO er is a good both California 61 31 2 136 71 change now and 34 24 2 and Florida beat. 167 77 10 2 1 11 3 then. The rest of In the Isles, you 25 11 20 48 23 the year is real can really relax 18 9 10 • 49 18 pleasant. At the and take it easy. 287 129 49 851 377 moment, I'm liv­ True, on the lee ing in Brooklyn, side of the New York. In fact I'm trying to islands, there is rain. But all ENGINE DEPARTMENT ship out now to beat the winter. other areas are almost always TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED NOW ON THE BEACH sunny. All Groups All Groups All Groups t ir Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B ii. ^ Lester C. Long: I'll take Yoka1 1 1 1 . 9 0 3 hama. Good weather, like most Steve Bergeria: South Africa Boston New York 67 7 38 21 35 117 43 things, is a mat­ has the best weather as far as I'm Philadelphia 7 7 1 6 29 26 1 ter of taste. I concerned. The Baltimore 14 15 15 57 52 4 1 prefer a tem­ climate there is Norfolk 1 1 0 6 5 26 23 Jacksonville 2 perate climate 1 3 2 9 2 9 moderate and you Tampa 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 with the usual can use the Mobile 15 4 2 13 1 18 38 four seasonal beaches all 42 New Orleans 40 31 28 0 95 , 61 changes. Yokayear round. The 27 22 Houston 30 21 3 96 90 hama has this, beachfront is Wilmington 4 2 4 5 3 8 6 and boasts a similar to Miami, 22 19 San Francisco ..... 15 4 5 39 18 truly beautiful but the South 16 5 7 Seattle 11 10 6 30 spring and au­ African beaches 201 112 47 Totals 182 136 359 556 tumn. Of all the ports, I feel most are far better. comfortable there. The only trouble is that that once STEWARD DEPARTMENT In a while it gets a little windy, 4 Si * TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED NOW ON THE BEACH but no't too bad. All Groups All Groups All Groups Harry Rodriguext Puerto Rico, of course. There are wonderful Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B Port Class A Class B beaches there, a Boston 2 0 0 0 0 6 2 •un that shines 24 New York 38 8 60 14 12 118 Philadelphia 9 10 2 27 14 3 3 every day, and 7 7 69 Baltimore 11 n 1 38 the prettiest girls (Continued from page 3) 17 4 2 0 13 3 1 in the world. Best "live to regret It.* "By that time Norfolk 1 2 5 Jacksonville 3 1 0 2 of all, for a it may be too late to repair the Tampa 7 2 4 3 3 3 6 fisherman like damage caused by their dangerous Mobile 47 7 4 1 3 20 13 myself, the fish­ and unworkable theories," he em­ New Orleans 43 1 119 61 41 31 25 ing is great all phasized. 29 99 43 11 10 Houston 34 15 year round. 2 1 13 3 Wilmington 2 3 8 He noted that every other mari­ 19 4 46 13 4 8 San Francisco 14 Panama is my 17 11 8 25 19 12 6 second favorite, but they have too time nation in the world reserves Seattle itl 591 262 94 203 84 188 much rain there, much more than substantial cargoes for its own Totals lines and every other maritime Puerto Rico. nation subsidizes its merchant fleet and its shipyards, and added: "Compared to the subsidy bur­ den of agriculture and direct ex­ penditures of the Government for aircraft and space Industries, the latter being subsidized 100 per­ cent, the total government contri­ bution in all ways to the merchant marine is and always has been One of the most common hazards aboard ship results from the collection of harmful WASHINGTON — A televised pitifully omall." gases in tanks, holds, coal bunkers, etc. Spaces containing such gases sometimes also tribute to the late Herbert H. In the area of national security. contain less than the normal amount of oxygen. Lehman, U.S. Senator and Gover­ Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., A man entering such a tank ^ nor of New York, will be presented commander of ttie Atlantic Fleet, unprotected and without first that formation of carbon monoxide such tanks without proper precau­ as the fourth annual tv drama pointed out that more than 90 properly checking for possi­ is associated with linseed oil and tions often causes further casual­ produced by the George Meany percent of the means for fighting pigments, such as red lead, used to ties, as gas masks, respirators etc., Foundation. The documentary pro­ in Vietnam, just as it was in Ko­ ble hazards can quickly suffer prevent rust. serve no purpose at all. A breath­ asphyxiation or suffocation both gram, which will focus on high­ rea, moved on ships. ing apparatus that functions Investigators have found carbon from lack of air and from poison­ lights of Lehman's career as "We will not survive, I warn ous effects of the harmful gases he monoxide concentrations as high through its own independent sup­ statesman and public servant, will you, if the freighters do not get may breathe in without realizing as 0.4% in small compartments ply of oxygen is the only suitable be broadcast over the NBC-TV in with our raw materials," he it. coated with linseed oil paints. A device to use. network at 1:30 PM (EST) Sunday, emphasized, noting that modern Since free air normally contains concentration of 0.2% may bring Many Substances besides iron and December 5. technology had in no way lessened about 21% of oxygen by volume, about death in 2 to 4 hours. A few steel can cause an unsuspected Vice President Hubert H. the need for ships. even a small reduction of the seconds of breathing air containing oxygen deficiency in an enclosed Humphrey will be featured on the Other speakers Included Mari­ oxygen content in the air due to 2% of this gas will bring uncon­ space. The most common hazards tribute as he traces his former time Administrator Nicholas John­ the presence of other gases is sciousness, fdllowed by death in result from decomposition of cer­ Senate colleague's contributions to son; Edwin M. Hood, President of enough to cause unconsciousness 3 to 4 minutes. tain organic substances. Combined human welfare and social advance­ the Shipbuilders Council of Amer­ or death almost immediately. The This is the same deadly gas with moisture, cargoes such as ment in an interview with NBC's ica; B. A. Gritta, President of the danger is multiplied because some escaping from a car exhaust. Its tobacco, resin, coal, linseed cake, Pauline Frederick. AFL-CIO Metal Trades Depart­ gases give no clue to their pres­ effect is immediate because the potatoes, oranges and certain ani­ mal oils generate C02 gas as well The George Meany Foundation ment; and Labor Secretary W. ence; they can neither be seen nor blood absorbs carbon monoxide 300 as carbon monoxide. The circum­ smelled. times faster than it takes in oxygen. Willard Wirtz. is a part of the Herbert H. Leh­ In addition, ship's tanks which The oxygen is simply choked out stances are different in each case, man Institute. The foundation's which explains why proper-testing have remained sealed for relatively and cannot get into the blood annual tv program is incorporated must be conducted first. There may long periods may be unsafe to stream. into the Eternal Light series, pre­ be no hint at all that the air is enter even though they contain no sented weekly by NBC television lacking in oxygen or otherwise Oxygen Deficiency oil or other cargo residues. Acci­ and the Jewish Theological harmful. dents have occurred in tanks which Seminary of America. SIU Presi­ Oxygen deficiency Itself is a Seafarers are reminded that Use of a flame safety lamp is a are at times filed with water for major cause of accidents in empty dent Paul Hall is a member of the when they leave a ship after recommended to test the ballast or other purposes. Meany Foundation Board of tanks since moist steel tanks use oxygen contentmeans articles expire in a foreign of the atmosphere up oxygen by rusting. The oxygen Directors, Carbon Monoxide port, the obligation to leave a in spaces where there is even a volume in an enclosed space can remote chance of oxygen deficien­ c.'ean ship for the next crew Deaths have resulted from men The program's script, entitled is the same as in any Stateside entering unused, sealed tanks be reduced to less than 4% as a cy. This includes holds or compart­ "The Moral Dimension," was port. Attention to details of painted with red lead to protect result of "routine" oxidation. ments where a fire has been written by Charlotte Marshall, housekeeping and efforts to against corrosion. In one instance, There is nothing in the appear­ smouldering. The lamp will stop and will be narrated by Robert leave quarters, messrooms and the paint had come off in a num­ ance or odor of the air in these burning if the oxygen content of Burr and Lester Rawlins. Bther working spaces clean ber of places, caused the contained tanks to indicate the lack of normal the air is below normal levels and, will be appreciated by the new Time of the broadcast on local air to react with the metal and oxygen, which makes this condi­ due to its construction, the lamp crfw. wh,en it comes aboard. NBC stations may be found by produced a probable concentration tion particularly dap^erous. Rescue will no^ cause^ infl^mpnable gases consulting local • pfo§ram ^ listin.^. of.cm'bon njonoxide., It i;. believed attempts on ^eri vvlio have entered Shipbuilding Lack Of Air, Poisoned Air Are Hazards In Ship Spaces TV Tribute To Herbert Lehman Set For Dec. 5 Foreign Payoff? Leave Clean Ship �a, lite Progressive Legislation Aided By Liberal Votes Face liEAFAk^kg tOG "I Always Ride This Line r The difference between victory and defeat for mucti of the pro­ gressive social legislation that was passed in the BBth Congress was to a great extent attributable to the votes of labor union members who helped elect 61 liberal Congressmen to the House of Representa­ tives during 1964. In many cases, the margin of difference between a bill gaining acceptance in the House was represented by these 51 votes. A good example of the importance of liberal support on many crucial issues that came before the House are the tally vote listed below: ISSUE VOTE Appalachia aid (passage) '. 257-165 Medicare (motion to kill rejected) 236-191 Urban Development Dept. (passage) 217-184 Housing (effort to kill rejected) 208-202 Anti-Poverty (effort to kill rejected) 227-178 14-b Repeal (effort to kill rejected) 223-200 14-Repeal (passage) 221-203 Public Woi'ks (approval to increase funds) ...., 196-194 Farm Bill (passage) 221-172 Immigration (effort to limit Western Hemisphere immigration to 115,000 a year r'ejected) ... 218-189 It was passage of issues like those listed above, plus other important legislation, that earned the first session of the B9th Congress praise of the AFL-CIO Executive Council as "the most productive Con­ gressional session ever held." Following are descriptions of some of the landmark legislation enacted: • Medicare—Enacted after a 20-year struggle. Brings hospital care for-the elderly under the social security program. Provides option plan to help pay for doctors' and related fees. • Social Security—Benefits increased seven percent retroactive to January 1, 1965. Increased earnings of recipients permitted without loss of benefits. Liberalized provisions for widows, disabled and dependents. • Public Education—First major program of federal aid to public elementary and secondary schools. Primary aim: to help children of the poor break out of poverty cycle through education. More than 90 percent of counties in U.S. will benefit. • Higher Education—New program of scholarships and low-interest loans to help young persons from low and middle income families attain college education. Doubles funds for college construction to accommodate booming college-age population. Provides money to build up college libraries and to improve level of teaching at smaller colleges. Establishes a national teacher corps to train teams of experienced and novice teachers to teach in slum schools (appropri­ The tragic sinking of the cruise ship Yar­ ations were knocked out in last days of Congress). mouth Castle has driven the point home • Civil Rights—A strong follow-up to the sweeping Civil Rights to all those concerned with maritime that Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Guarantees all Americans the right to vote. Provides for federal registrars in areas where danger is the sailing companion of every patterns of discrimination exist in registering and voting. Eliminates seaman, officer or passenger who sails aboard literacy tests as conditions of voting. a runaway-flag vessel. • Taxes—Excise taxes slashed on long list of consumer goods. The American-owned, Panamanian-flag Average family will benefit by savings of $57 annually, according to Yarmouth Castle burned and sank in the U.S. Treasury Department. • War on Poverty—Series of programs including special aid to Caribbean recently with a loss of 89 lives. 11-state Appalachia area; broad planning for regional development This disaster represents a graphic example through public works; Operation Head Start to give children of the poor preschool training; Neighborhood Youth Corps to help Jobless of the potential tragedy which hovers oyer every vessel flying the flag of a nation youngsters; VISTA, a domestic peace corps. • Housing—Stepped-up construction of low-rent public housing, serving as a haven for runaway-flag ships. grants for home improvements for home-owners earning less than Ever-present danger and potential tragedy $3,000 a year, housing for the elderly. Break-through rent subsidy are the inevitable results of the kind of plan to help poor meet rent payments for decent housing, though enacted as part of bill, was squeezed out by Congress' refusal to operation run by the typical runaway-flag appropriate funds. President Johnson has vowed to fight to restore shipowner. These are the greedy operators it next year. who register their ships abroad for one pur­ • Pollution Control—Legislation providing for both air and water pose—to save money. In their pell-mell at­ pollution. Requires 1968 modef autos be equipped to control exhaust. tempt to make as big profits as possible, they Takes steps to control pollution filling air from industrial fumes, smoke of municipal dumps. Moves toward cleaning up nation's rivers ignore the flag of their own country to evade and streams by controlling sewage, industrial waste, other disposal. American safety standards as well as taxes • Aid to Cities—Enactment of law creating new Department of and working conditions. Housing and Urban Development. Gives urban-dwellers voice at It should be obvious that any shipowner Cabinet level for first time. Will coordinate all programs of federal aid to cities, helping them deal with problems of transportation, who takes shortcuts on safety to save on education, housing, development of community facilities. his vessel's operating costs is courting dis­ • Manpower Training—Improved 1962 act by extending period aster. Far from learning from the countless during which persons could receive training from one to two years, providing additional benefits and allowances for trainees. Also now maritime tragedies that have afflicted run­ permits 100 percent federal financing rather than requiring states to away vessels, these operators still work pay one-third of program's costs. under the assumption that a dollar saved • Health—In addition to medicare, a sweeping series of measures is a splendid substitute for safety. to improve the health of Americans, the quality of their care. Among Safety standards aboard runaway-flag the bills: regional medical centers to attack cancer, heart disease, stroke and other killer diseases; grants for staffing community mental ships' are governed by the International health centers; increased funds for construction of health research Convention for Safety of Life at Sea, which facilities; grants to improve medical libraries and their services; ex­ pansion of grant programs for training of health personnel and for has been in effect since 1960 when the Yar­ loans to students in specified health fields. mouth Castle's country of registry, Panama, • Incmigration—Revised immigration laws to toss out discredited and 39 other nations agreed to its provisions. national origins quota system discriminating against immigrants from However, the Convention failed to include cei'tain countries. Gives priority to close relatives of U.S. citizens. Organized labor will be watching Congress closely when it convenes inspection or enforcement apparatus and .'.gain as it takes up several items of vitally Important legislation that exempted ships built before the 1960 agreev.ere left untouched in the last session. Among the most important was signed. These, two loopholes renof these will be repeal "ermits Individual states js ' eilact' so-fcilied -"righi-tb-Work"" la'v^l.'' ' f d%T" thfe Cortvention a^eeniSBt ^Virtually- use- ^ less in providing adequate safety standards aboard rimaway-flag ships, in addition to the fact that the standards adopted by the Con­ vention fall far below those required for U.S. shipping. The runaway operator's haste to make an extra dollar also leads him to operate his vessels with less than the adequate number of crewmembers, thus further endangeriri ship safety. Owners who indulge in this practice are in reality laying a welcome mat to danger at the top of the gangway. Another manner in which runaway owners scrimp for profits is to hire unskilled or poorly trained crewmembers. They are aideH in this practice by the failure of the runaway nations to set appropriate skill requirements for ship personnel. When trouble strikes such a poorly trained crew, tragedy is bound to occur. The SIU has issued a call to Congress to give the National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction over foreign-flag vessels sub­ stantially engaged in American commerce. If the NLRB were granted this jurisdic­ tion, crews on runaway-flag vessels would have the opportunity of choosing the bar­ gaining representatives of their own choice and U.S. maritime unions could insist that the same high safety standards required on American-flag ships be applied to the run­ aways that, do most of their sailing in U.S. commerce. Human lives of both crewmembers and passengers are at stake on foreign-flag ships sailing from American ports. The owners of these ships have proven themselves to be more interested in dollars than safety. If U.S. maritime unions are permitted to cor­ rect these conditions, crewmembers on these ships can sail without the constant threat of inevitable'flaifger'and:disaster: '' ' ' " �SEAFARERS Fac«HKh« NOTOBbW U, im LOG Five More Oidtimers Link Old OK'd For Pensions Shipwreck To Explorer Burns Barrett Mutin Donovan Five more pensioners have been added to the growing list of SIU veterans whose retirement years are secured by life­ time $150-monthly pension checks. The five additional pen-"*" land. He last sailed aboard the sioners are George Burns, Alcoa Trader. 70, Stephen Vincent Barrett, Brother Turso last sailed for the 65, Nick Mutin, 50, Dominick Railway Marine Turso, 65, and Richard M. Dono­ Region in the port van, Jr., 57. of New York, where he sailed Burns signed on with the SIU as a ferry porter. in the port of Detroit, where he Born in Hoboken, sailed as an AB. Born in Buffalo, New Jersey, he New York, he presently makes his and his wife Mary home In Kenmore, New York. He continue to make last shipped out aboard the their home there. Niagara Mohawk. Brother Turso Barrett sailed as a tug fireman, Turso last sailed for the joining the Union in the port cf Buffalo, New York. Born in Delaware Lackawanna Railroad, Buffalo, he and his wife Alice the company for which he worked continue to make their home since 1917. Donovan sailed as a member of there. Brother Barrett last sailed for the Great Lakes Towing Com­ the deck department after joining the SIU's Railway Marine Region pany. Mutin joined the SIU in the in the port of New York. Born in port of Baltimore, where he sailed New York, he and his wife Ethel as a chief cook. Born In Ohio, he now live in Union City, New and his wife Lillian now make Jersey. He last sailed for the Erie their home in Baltimore, Mary­ Lackawana Railroad. By Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative Shipping continues to be very good in the port of San Francisco, and the shortage of men In all ratings, except bosun, continues to persist. During the last two weeks the Steel Designer, Steel Flyer, Express Buffalo and the Alice Brown paid off. Crewing up in the Bay area were the Iberville, Fanwood, Longvlew Victory, Ocean Dinny, Transyork, Fairwind, Deleware, Falrport,-f Steel Flyer, Steel Designer and ber of men shipped when the Anchorage signed on. Alice Brown. R. A. DeVirgelio, a DM veteran, Oldtimer Demetrios Calogeros dropped into the San Francisco came by to tell us how pleased he haU recently. He said he was stuck was with the new contract. Calo­ in Anchorage, Alaska for some time geros said his last ship, the Mt. when the Express Washington, was the best he's ever Buffalo laid up sailed on. He had to get off be­ because of winch cause of illness. trouble, R. Spen­ Dennis Manning is also a man cer, a veteran well satisfied with his last ship, Gulf Seafarer told us he came the Seattle. Manning put 14 in on her as DM, and is West after hear­ months now waiting to catch her again ing reports that when she comes out of the ship­ shipping was so yard. good. He barely DeVirgileo Wilmington had time to talk with the boys here before he took Among some of the old faces that off to Wilmington to sign on as have visited the hall recently AB on the Bayhorn Victory which was Frank Lamis headed for the far east. Good berti who recent­ shipping also convinced T. J. ly piled off Kismial that he had enough time the San Francisco on the beach, and the time had where h e made come to regain his sea legs. two trips as Brother Kismial also grabbed a bosun. He told us far east run on the Alice Brown he was planning where he'll hold down the bosun's on enjoying job. T ha n k s g i v i ng Seattle with his family Lambert! this year. SIU members who want to ship Shipping has been setting a in a hurry are cordially invited to cor.e out to Seattle and register. booming pace in Wilmington dur­ The outlook for the coming weeks ing the last two week period, and looks very promising, based on there is a shortage of class A and the rapid pace of job calls in the B men in all ratings. The outlook last period. Paying off in recent for the coming weeks continues to weeks were the Loma Victory, be very good. The Oceanic Spray Summit, Yellowstone, Belgium Vic- paid off and eight ships visited the lor^. Producer, Seattle. A nuip: , and Fred Farncn, Secretary-Treasurer, Great Lakes It's the same story all over the Great Lakes in regard to shippingall has been excellent. It certainly appears that it will remain this way until the closing of the shipping in the area. We have had unusually SYDNEY, Australia—^The wreck good weather on the Lakes until Just the last week or so, when there of the ship Porpoise, aboard which have been a few snow flurries with the temperature dropping well explorer Matthew Flinders was before freezing at night. -f sailing in 1803 when she and here last week. Les Lapage ship­ Alpena another vessel, the Cato, struck a ped as AB, and Bill Doyle went as We have the E. M. Ford fitting pearl diver. The Kyska will call reef and went ^own off the coast of Australia, has been found and out now and shipping is expected on the East Coast and Gulf ports, identified by a skin diver-under­ to remain good for the next two then proceed to the West Coast weeks. Since deer season opens the and Far East. water photographer. 20th of this month, plenty of relief Flinders was one of the most jobs are expected to be called in. Duluth noted explorers of his time who Shipping still has not let up in Buffalo is today best known in Australia, this port and remains good, eswhere nary a town is without a The Kinsman Marine Transit Co. specially in the street named after him and where will be the first to begin laying up deck and engine a mountain range bears his name. vessels in this port, starting some­ departments, al­ He was also the first to discover time during the first week of Dec­ though the stew­ and correct for the compass error ember. At least 25 vessels are ex­ ard's department caused by iron in ships. The vert­ pected in the winter fleet this has been falling ical bars of soft iron placed near season. off slightly. Most the compass to make this correc­ vessels have at Cleveland tion were named Flinders bars least one more Even though the season has only after him. trip up. The Mea few more weeks to go, calls for sabi Ore Dock Identified on the basis of his­ replacements have not slowed Furst will close Novem­ torical records, the Porpoise lies down. Some of the book men are alongside a coral bed off Queens­ starting to come in already with ber 21, but the G. N. A. Docks will remain open a little longer. land. Most of the hull has rotted room for quite a few more^ Grain shipments have been main­ away, but the ship's cannon, an Chicago taining a steady pace. anchor and some ballast are still Shipping is remaining steady, intact. Frankfort and no major changes are foreseen Not His Ship We have received word from the in the next few weeks. Joe Yukes Although the Porpoise has, since is still farming his eight acres and Ann Arbor Railroad Co. that they its sinking, been associated with has kept the guys on the beach will call for a crew for the Grand Flinders it was not actually his well supplied with fresh vege­ Rapids on December 1. The jobs will be posted semi-permanent for sihip, and he was sailing as a tables. at least ten days preceding the passenger when she went down Detroit reporting date. The vessel is because his own vessel, the In­ A couple of A & G members scheduled to begin operating Dec­ vestigator, was leaking badly due hit it lucky when the Kyska called ember 6. to a rotted hull. When the Porpoise and the Cato struck the uncharted reef and went down. Flinders took charge, and leaving most of the crewmen on a sandbar rowed with six crewmen the 800 miles back to Port Jackson—which is what Sidney was then called. He then brought back the relief ship that picked up the survivors. Flinders' 800-mile voyage over open water in a small boat propelled solely by oars is one of the most amazing feats in maritime history. Flinders' reputation in Aus­ tralia stems from the fact that he helped explore the Australian coasts. He was attempting a cir­ cumnavigation of Australia when the Investigator began to leak and he barely made it back after a difficult voyage. Ratified By Membership Major Gains Won In New SIU Great Lakes Pact DETROIT—Members of the SIU Great Lakes District have won major gains in a new three-year contract which provides for an 18-cent wage rise, a 74-cent per man, per day increase in welfare contribu--*: tions made by the companies members an 18-cent rise in wages and an industry wide vaca­ over the life of the contract. The tion plan. Terms of the new contract were ratified unanimously at member­ ship meetings held at Great Lakes District ports on October 18. The new pact will give SlU-GLD Fred Farnen, secretary-treasurer of the SIU Great Lakes District (center), signs the new 1965 contract with member shipping companies of the Great Lakes Association of Marine carriers. Seated with Farnen are (l-r) William Crippen, Boland and Cornelius S.S. Company (left), and James Lucier, Wyandotte Transportation Company (right). Looking on from the rear are Jack Bluitt, GLD Detroit Port agent (left), and Henry Rake, Reis,s S.S. Company (right). increased 74-cent per day, per man contributions to the Welfare Plan made by the companies will become effective in March, 1966. New Vacation Plan The new contract witih the Great Lakes Association of Marine Carriers, also calls for the estab­ lishment of an industry-wide va­ cation plan. The new plan will go into effect on January 1, 1967. The new pact also provides pro­ tection for members who miss their ship. Under the new terms, a mem­ ber who misses his vessel, even through his own fault, cannot be fired, provided that he notifies the captain or company and the Union of his intention to rejoin his ship. Provisions have been inserted in the new agreement to protect jobs that the shipowners have been try­ ing to eliminate in the past. The new wording states "Not less than three seamen shall constitute a complete watch at all times." Sev­ eral months ago several Great Lakes operators tried to convince the Coast Guard to eliminate the deckwatch classification aboard their ships. The deckwatch is the third watchstander on each watch. Another change in the new con­ tract will speed up maintenance and cure payments to members on the beach. According to the new provisions, shipowners must now pay all claims in amounts of not more than two weeks period pay­ ments- . �November U, 1995 SEAFARERS LOG ru* NIM AMERICAN LABOR AND BRITISH LABOR T is my great honor and privilege to bring Ifrom s you fraternal greetings and good wishes the officers and members of the Amer­ ican Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Since your last congress, we of the AFLCIO welcomed an event of vital importance for your country and the whole world—the Labor Party victory and the establishment of a Labor government. We of the AFL-CIO have always been keenly interested in what happens in your country. We have been especially interested in TUC reactions to the problems it faces. After all, our two coun­ tries are divided only by a common lan­ guage, as it has been said, if I recall correct­ ly. by one of your most esteemed leaders. I refer to the late Herbert Morrison, whom the American trade unionists have always respected very much. Problems Much Alike We confidently look lo your decisions be­ ing meaningful and fruitful for the interna­ tional labor movement as well as for your own membership and nation. In certain de­ tails, the specific problems before you may be different from those we face. But in es­ sence and substance these problems are quite alike. We both live and work in a democratic society. Neither the British TUC or the AFL-CIO can escape the impact of a world which is far from peaceful. It is a world with hurdreds of millions of its peo­ ple ill-fed. ill-clad, and ill-housed. It is a world where more than a billion people live under one or another type of dictator­ ship. As you well know, British and American labor have had close associations for a num­ ber of decades. These associations have been strengthened by adversity no less than by advance. The bond that has held us and will hold us together is our common dedication to democracy and social justice. Of course, we have not always been in full agreement on everything. But, having been brought up in democratic societies, with traditions of freedom, we have hoth learned how to dis­ agree without heing disagreeable. In our democratic societies, disagreement is no road to liquidation. It will interest you to know that the labor John H. Lyons, Jr. is president of the Inter­ national Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Union, which is a member of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and on which Bn-other Lyons serves as an executive board member. The text of the remarks on this page was delivered by Lyons before the British Trades Union Congress last month where he rep­ resented the AFL-CIO as a fraternal delegate. The LOG is reprinting Lyons* remarks since they illus­ trate the common ties, ideals and interests which serve to link the American and British labor move­ ments. Brother Lyons' re­ marks clearly explain why the AFL-CIO is John H. Lyons Jr. working to strengthen democracy around the world. .i. movement of the United States is the most internationally-minded segment of Ameri­ can society. Two world wars and the subse­ quent rise of a variety of dictatorships have taught lis some valuable lessons. Regardless of their differences, these dictatorships are all mortal enemies of free labor, human dig­ nity, social justice, democracy and world peace. We of American labor do not meas­ ure our world-mindedness by the amount we spend on our international activities. Though I am sure you will be interested to know that the AFL-CIO Executive Council spends nearly 25 percent of its income on these activities. I am equally sure that you will be glad to learn that the largest propor­ tion of this sum has been spent through con­ tributions to the International Confedera­ tion of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). Ameri­ can labor, together with the British TUC, worked hard to establish the ICFTU. We have been working with equal energy to build the ICFTU. And we will spare no ef­ forts to make the ICFTU an ever more effec­ tive and truly international body. Here, let me assure you that AFL-CIO President George Meany spoke for our en­ tire membership when he told the ICFTU Eighth World Congress at Amsterdam on July 7: "We may come from different coun­ tries, we may have different religions, we may differ in our political affiliations or have other differences—but we must never forget that what unites us and brings us to­ gether in this historic congress is far strong­ er than that which may, at one time or an­ other, divide us." I need not assure you that these remarks were very well received by the delegates. International Interest The international interest and activities of the AFL-CIO go beyond the international free trade union movement. We do our ut­ most to help our country develop and pursue a democratic foreign policy. We want our country to be strong enough militarily, po­ litically and economically to assure its own national security. We have don® niu' best to have our nation help other liberty-loving peoples defend their own peace and freedom. In this spirit, American labor set the pace in supporting the Marshall Plan. We were the first to call for prompt adequate aid to the post-war British Labor government. American labor has consistently championed the right of self-determination for all peoples. We have resolutely opposed the new as well as the old form of colonial domination. No one has fought harder than American labor for adequate assistance to the new nations in their efforts to be free from foreign control and develop modern economies and fi'ee so­ cieties in which responsible trade unions can grow. We hold that the unity and strength of the Atlantic community are the best guar­ antee for world peace. We believe in building the United Nations into an effective force for world peace and human rights. Through all our iiileriiational policies and actions there runs like a steel rod the con­ viction that the struggle between democracy and dictatorship is the over-riding problem of our age. We strongly prefer democracy —despite all its imperfections—to every form of dictatorship with all its pretenses to per­ fection. What is more, we are convinced that the workers of every country in the world have the greatest stake in making democracy triumphant in this struggle. Why? Because without democracy there can he no free trade ' ; , ,, unioiis. As we of American labor see it, any policy which serves human freedom and peace de­ serves our support. On the other hand, we oppose any policy or business deal which helps or strengthens any dictatorship, any aggressor, or any fellow-travelers of dictators and aggressors. In this light, we of American labor are against the sale of American-made radio transmitters to the Indonesian dictator Sukarno. We oppose this sale because he would use them for aggression against the people of Malaysia today and perhaps against the people of Australia tomorrow. By the same token, we would like to see that no British buses or French planes should be sold to Castro, the dictator who has destroyed the Cuban free trade unions and robbed the people of Cuba of all democratic rights. We do not have a narrow job-protection attitude towards such international business trans­ actions. We would rather lose some of our jobs on occasion, for some of the time, than do anything which might help those who want to destroy our liberty for all of the time. This was the inspiring attitude of your Manchester textile workers when they supported the cause of Lincoln and freedom and opposed British commercial transactions helpful to the Southern slave-holding oligarchy. This is the position of the American trade union movement. This is our attitude, regai-dless of the position that our government might take on this or similar questions. For in­ stance, we have consistently differed from our government's policy towards the Falangist dictatorship of Franco Spain. The AFI.-CIO has always been against our government or any other democracy, fostering any commer­ cial or economic transactions helpful to anv type of dictatorship. We do not prefer one type of dictatorship as against another be­ cause of the color of its flag or its revolu­ tionary pretensions. ^ In this connection, let me say that our Presi­ dent, George Meany, spoke for the entire American labor movement when he told the recent Congress of the ICFTU that, "Greater unity and superior strength of the freedomloving peoples provide the surest road to a world free from war. Those who prize democ­ racy must have the determination and strength not only to prevent war but also to deter the aggressor from taking any action which might aggravate the danger of war. This holds true for the struggle against in­ direct as well as direct aggression. It is just as necessary to beat aggression by ambush or subversion as it is to defeat aggression by assault and invasion." In these remarks he is reflecting the views of the overwhelming majority o^ the American neonle as well. Ambush by Aggression Let me be very cicdr. When I speak of "aggression by ambush." I have in mind I he tragic Vietnam situation. American labor welcomes the position taken by the Briti<^h Labor Party and Labor Government in sup­ porting "the American position in helping the South Vietnam government to resist the . . . drive from the North." We also appreciate •the sympathetic understanding of our posi­ tion shown hy your distinguished Foreign Secretary, Michael Stewart, at the Oxford "Speech-Ill" a few months ago. I thank you most heartily for this oppor­ tunity to tell you how we of American labor view the critical international situation. Let me leave you with one-thought above all else: Our knowledge that British labor never has been and never will be silent or idle in the struggle between freedom and tyranny brings us great encouragement as a member of the Jajnily of free world labor.' ; ' ^ �^g^FAMMJiS to a Tngt Tea Moves Underway To Make Marad Independent Agency NaimAw SA IMI Tighten ThoM Bnite WASHINGTON, D.C.—The year 1966 may wall sea tha most intensiva reexamination of American maritime policies since passage of tha Merchant Marina Act of 1936, it is widely believed here. since 1936, and transferred most of ported from this country—in other Among the proposals which its functions to the Department of words, to promote the sale of U.S. commodities abroad. have already come in for Commerce. considerable discussion is a Under this Reorganization Plan, Yet there are many businessmen in this country who believe that the use of American-flag ships re­ stricts the volume of our exports, and who would reject any sugges­ tion or requirement that American ships be more widely used, and this could be an incentive for the Department, under certain condi­ tions, to take actions which would favor the use of foreign-flag ves­ sels over American ones. Such an action was taken by the Secretary of Commerce only recently, when he indicated to a Congressional committee that he favored lifting the 50 percent American - flag requirement on sales of American wheat to Soviet countries. In view of considerations such as those cited above, the SIU and other maritime unions, as well as International Longshoremens Association safety director a number of maritime industry Joseph Leonard (left) and SIU safety director Joe Algina spokesmen, have long felt that the best interests of the American-flag check automobile seat belts on display at the recent Labor merchant fleet would be served if Conference of the National Safety Council held in Chicago. its destinies were in the hands of AFL-CIO President George Meany has called on all union the one Federal agency charged members to join in an all-out safety campaign to reduce the by law with the responsibility for tragic rise in fatalities on the nation's highways by installing preserving and promoting it, and which, in reaching its decisions, and using seat belts. had no conflicting interests to con­ sider. These union and Industry groUps have therefore been urging that the Maritime Administration be By SroNEY MARGOLIUS reestablished as an independent agency and that the Maritime Ad­ ministrator's decisions be removed Kellogg's Corn Flakes spent an estimated $300,000-$400,000 one night from review or overruling by the recently on a big variety show featuring Jimmy Durante. The show, Secretary of Commerce. reaching a nationwide audience on prime evening time, had one Opponents and critics of a strong American-flag ^nerchant Furthermore, it must be remem­ message: to tell the public that "food is a bargain." Durante, a bered that some of our most im­ marine are always quick to condemn the amount of money great comedian in more ways than one, gave a commercial, announcing portant Governmental programs, that he had learned from Government "data" that food takes only designed to assist the American- being spent by the Government on maritime subsidies. Yet 19 per cent of your income, which is less than in other countries. flag merchant fleet, are adminis­ only a small amount of the * (You can be sure Durante knows more about "dis-a" than "data." tered neither by the Maritime Ad­ Government money used in billion for ship-operating subThen the announcer came on, and with a medley of patriotic music ministration nor the Department subsidies and similar aids is sidi^, and $259 million for cargo playing in the backgroimd, said fhis low proportion of income for of Commerce. spent on the merchant marine, a preference. Thus the merchant food was the result of American free enterprise. The announcer then The Public Law 430 program, recwit Government publication marine gets only about .4 percent —four cents out of every ten .dol­ - said, "Is someone trying to tell you food is not a bargain?" which calls for Governmental dis­ reports. lars—of the subsidy money spent "Subsidy and subsidy-effect pro­ This costly, star-studded attempt to make it sound unpatriotic to posal of our surplus agricultural criticize high food prices—part of a general food-industry campaign— products, for example, is admin­ grams of the U.S. Government," a by Uncle Sam. Who gets the other percentage is not only in bad taste but based on some misleading figures from istered by the Department of Ag­ report issued by the Joint Eco­ of Government subsidies? nomic Committee of the U.S. Con­ the U.S. Agriculture Department. Even in the face of this year's jump riculture, and Agriculture's inter­ As you might expect, the man in food prices, food manufacturers have embarked on a new campaign ests invariably conflict with those gress, describes 130 kinds of Fed­ eral subsidies which are given to receiving by far the largest pack­ "designed to cor.v nice Americans that food is cheap," Elmer Roessner, of the maritime industry. large numbers of individuals, indus­ age of subsidies is the farmer. syndicated business columnist reports. Other Governmental programs Roessner points out that the real reason why we spend a lower are administered by such agencies tries, and interest groups. Of these, The Joint Committee estimates merely three, the shipbuilding sub­ share of income for food than consumers in other countries, is because as the Defense Department and sidy, the ship-operating subsidy, that from the years 1955 to 1666 total American income is much greater than other nations. The fact Agency for International Develop­ and cargo preference, go to the aid farmers will have received a tolal of more than $46 billion. Sub­ is, most foods are really cheaper in foreign countries, he observes. ment, which is an arm of the of the maritime industry. sidies to farmers include more The other misleading interpretation used by the Agriculture Depart­ State Department, and these agen­ In the words of the Joint Com­ than the conspicuous price sup­ ment is the "19 per cent" figure. This is a figure taken from the cies in the past have displayed mittee: "It is interesting to note port program. The Government Department of Commerce, and includes expenditures of nonprofit little concern for the welfare of that the only Federal statutes conducts nearly all scientific re­ institutions, and single individuals as well as families. In contrast. the American-flag fleet. using the word 'subsidy' are those search on farming, works out Bureau of Labor Statistics "data," which Jimmy Durante overlooked In fact, the House Merchant Ma­ dealing with ship construction and management techniques to help in his research, indicate that an urban wage-earning family with two rine Committee, in reviewing the ship operations." The Committee farmers increase profits, and op­ or more children usually spend 24 to 30 per cent of their income, administration of the Cargo Pref­ explains that the other 127 kinds erates a vast extension program and more for large families. erence Act in 1955, noted that a of Government subsidies are for farmer education. Despite the food industry's and Agriculture Department's incessant lack of coordination and a great masked with such terms as "serv­ Other major Governmeiit sub­ campaign, the public apparently refuses to believe that "food is a deal of confusion existed in im­ ices," "loans (at cheap interest)," sidies include an estimated $16.1 bargain." One USDA official told a meeting of Illinois home econo­ plementation of the Act, and rec­ "tax incentives," and "expendi­ billion to business (1955-66); $765 mists recently that she was "disturbed" because of a recent survey. ommended that administration of tures necessary to the national in­ million to civil air carriers (1955It asked homemakers across the country if they had noticed any the Act be centralized under the terest." Yet, no mattef what these 65); $1,008 million to businesses price increases, and if so, in what items. The survey showed that general surveillance of the Mari­ programs are called, they are sub­ in the form of postal rates lovyer the "great majority of women had spotted the price increases in time Administration. This recom­ sidies—they provide cash benefits than Government costs (1956mendation, however, has never to people and organizations at 1963); $23.2 billion in special tax food and clothing." Government expense. been carried out. benefits to owners of defense In a year in which food prices have gone up more than any other Figures released by the Com­ facilities (1951-59); and $779 bil­ It is the feeling of the SIU and Item except medical care, you need to be selective in your buying, and especially avoid expensive convenience foods. The back of the other maritime unions, as well as mittee indicate that Government lion for financing airport construc­ tion (1947-63). The Government Kellogg's Corn Flakes boxes now show a big picture of Jimmy Durante various industry, groups, that once subsidy programs have cost an also has a long record of support average of nearly $7 billion a year MarAd is established as an inde­ at the piano singing "Food is a Bargain," and quoting various statistics. pendent agency, it should be the since 1955. This amounts to an to land transportation interes s But the front of the box tells a different story. That's where the price one to a rninister the various car­ estimated total of almost $83 bil­ such as grants of land and special is shown. go preference laws enacted by lion through 1966. Maritime's benefits to railroads, and spec 'l . You .cjan piaHe .it a rule; tl\aj;, the -instanier the • food, the- more it this country to assist its merchant •share of this total is estimated at features incorporated in highway.^ • $800 million for shipbuilding, $2 to aid truckik^. " » marine, t i costs. 1 proposal to remove the Maritime Administration from the Depart­ ment of Commerce and make it an independent agency. At least three bills to this effect have already been introduced in the Congress—by Representatives Mailliard of California, Pelly of Washington and Downing of Vir­ ginia — and indications are that hearings may be held early next year hj' both the House Merchant Marine Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee. Should any of the proposed bills eventually become law, and the Maritime Administration made an independent Executive agency re­ sponsible directly to the President, it will mean the culmination of a battle which maritime unions and maritime industry interests have been waging since Reorganization Plan No. 7—^which was submitted by President Kennedy to Congress on June 12,1961, and which became effective 60 days later—abolished the relatively autonomous Federal Maritime Board, which had existed the Maritime Administration is maintained as an agency of the Department of Commerce, but the Maritime Administrator is subor­ dinate to the Secretary of Com­ merce and the decisions of the Maritime Administrator—includ­ ing those on subsidies—are re­ viewable by the Secretary of Com­ merce. Unfortunately, and to the detri­ ment of the American-flag mer­ chant marine, the goals and pur­ poses of the Maritime Administra­ tion and the Department of Com­ merce do not always coincide—in fact, they sometimes conflict. The primary function of the Maritime Administration, for ex­ ample, is to promote and improve the American-flag merchant fleet. One of the primary functions of the Department of Commerce, on the other hand, is to promote the interests of American business in general, and the Department ap­ parently feels that one of the best ways of doing this is to increase the volume bf commodities ex- is Food Really A Bargain? Maritime Gets Tiny Share Of U. S. Subsidy Dollars �N«TMiib«r M, Utt Pflf* SlercB Helping Hand All Previous Records Fall As Business Profits Soar WASHINGTON—American business and industry smashed all existing profit records in the third quarter of 1965, surpassing the already tremendous increases of the first and second quarters over comparable periods in the previous record year of 1964. The unofficial and incom­ small one at most and would be measured as a percentage of sales. plete earnings reports, as from lofty heights Indeed," the Any pressure excerted on record listed by leading business survey said. Seafarer Perry Konis (left) gave shipmate Nick Comines a hand in filling out an S&A benefit form at the New York hall recently. Both Seafarers were just off the NotieiMil Defend­ er, on which Konis sailed as bosun while Cominos held down the pumpman slot. industrial Growth High On Inland Waterways In 1965 WASHINGTON—The expansion of industrial waterside plants through the third quarter of 1965 may prove to be a source of a large amount of additional cargo for inland waters 4 vessels. The increase of 404 rep­ available with the use of tugs and barges or larger vessels—as op­ resented the greatest increase posed to the high railroad rates magazines and newspapers, were supported by a Commerce Dept. report of a sharp •ummer-time rise of approximately fll billion in Grose National Product — the total output of goods and services —^after seasonal adjustments. "The traditional midsummer let­ down skipped the U.S. business community this year," reported Business Week In Its survey of third-quarter profits. The Wall St. Journal In Its quarterly report of profits said: "The first 525 reports Issued by publicly held corporations for the third quarter show an aggregate net income" of just under $4,213 billion, "or 16.8 percent more than the same companies earned in the like 1964 period." Corporation profits in die third quarter "maintained the record $44 billion annual rate" scored in the first six months of the year, "far above the $37 billion pace registered in the first half of 1964, the Journal reported. "Significantly," the survey ob­ served, the basic steel industry contributed little to this good showing" despite high third-quar­ ter steel sales that may have re­ flected apprehension of a possible strike. Third-quarter earnings in some other categories—aircraft makers, rubber companies, mining and metal firms — ranged from 42.6 percent above earnings in the same quarter last year to 153.7 percent. First-quarter corporate earnings showed an increase over 1964 of 16.3 percent and second-quarter gains ran at a 15.9 percent level — both of them lower than the third-quarter rise. profits by a cutback In steel sales in the fourth quarter may be "partially—if not fully—offset by some sizable gains expected for the auto industry," the Journal's survey noted. "The fou^^-quarter earnings In addition, the Journal survey increase expected for the auto in­ noted, profit margins continued to dustry could . turn out to be show a higher increase when immense." Right To Strike Rarely Used But Essential, Study Shows WASHINGTON—Strikes are such a rare occurrence in American industry that twice as much work is lost each year because of on-the-job injuries, according to an AFL-CIO study. While strikes are infre­ fact that there Is a "public inter­ quent, the analysis stresses est" in many strikes. There is a that the right to strike is the heart of the collective bargaining proc­ ess which establishes wages and working conditions for millions of Americans. The analysis, in the November issue of the AFL-CIO American Federationist, explores some of the common misconceptions about strikes, including the fiction that the public is always the loser when labor and management clash. Freedom from the occasional in­ convenience of a strike, the article suggests rests lightly on the scales when weighed against the alterna­ tives: dictation of working condi­ tions by either the employer or the government. Perspective Needed "public Interest" also, she stresses, in the democratic concept of col­ lective bargaining and the right of workers to utilize the "final weapon" of the picket line. Checks And Balances Most unions have a system of checks and balance to prevent hasty, unnecessary strikes—most commonly a procedure requiring both a vote of the union members directly involved and approval by the parent union. Each strike, the article points out, has its own peculiar causes and background which may be un­ known to the casual newspaper reader. Very often, the Federation­ ist analysis notes, strikes which appeared "unreasonable" to the outsider at the time turned out to be landmarks in improving indus­ trial relations. A Brookings Institution study by three prominent Harvard Universi­ ty professors made the point in these words: "The authors were considerably impressed by the number of instances in which se­ rious strikes had been constructive turning points in particular his­ tories of union-management rela­ tions." in waterside facilities since a simi­ which must be paid for shipments lar period in 1956. by similar manufacturers located Since 1952, 5,774 waterside plant inland. site developments have been During the third quarter of 1965 added. One of the major induce­ the chemical Industry continued to ments leading manufacturers to lead In waterside expansion by locate at waterside sites is the low adding or expanding 43 sites, rep­ cost movement of bulk shipments resenting 29 percent of all new waterside piant facilities. Metal producing plants accounted for 37 new facilities; 31 were docks, wharves and terminals; 13 were (Continued from page 4) general manufacturing plants; innovations in medicine in which the USPHS hospitals are in fore­ seven were paper and paper prod­ Net earnings of corporations and front. Among the important re­ ucts plants, five were petroleum The article, by Elizabeth Jager search programs carried out at the and petroleum products plants; business after taxes in 1964, the of the AFL-CIO Department of previous record year, reached the Staten Island USPHS hospital in four were grain facilities; two each Research, seeks to set in perspec­ the past have been improvements were fertilizer producing plants, $37 billion level. The projected tive the impact of strikes on the figure of $44 billion for 1964 would in child-birth techniques and bet­ power plants, textile plants and mean a spectacular Increase piled nation's economy and explain in ter treatment of venereal disease. cement works. on top of an Increase, although simple terms why and how workers The hospital staff is presently Major Waterways some economists believe that busi­ decide to strike. engaged in research in methods of ness will have a "tough time" The major waterways Involved It relates lost time because of controlling hypertension and maintaining record profits at that strikes to lost time for other causes were the Mississippi River with diseases of the kidney, cancer of the mouth, heart disease, diseases 23 sites, the Ohio River with 20, level In the fourth quarter, the through these government statis­ tics: for every man-day of produc­ of the eyes, the breast and the Tennessee River with nine, Hous­ Journal said. lungs. ton ship channel with eight. Lake This is because of anticipation tion lost through strikes in 1964, Erie and Lake Michigan with seven that there will be Inventory- two days were lost through work An SlU-backed bill to prevent injuries and more than 40 days the closing of the U.S. Public each, Missouri River with six, At­ cutting In the aftermath of the through unemployment. lantic intracoastal waterway with summer-time steel labor dispute. Health Service Hospitals was in­ 'Any slowdown promises to be a The author does not question the troduced into the House of Rep­ five, and Tampa Bay with four. resentatives several months ago (Continued from Page 2) by Representative Jacob H. Gil­ rencecliffe Hall from bow to amid­ bert (D.-N.Y.). The bill (H.R. 7268) ships. camie in the wake of testimony by The Lawrencecliffe Hall was re­ the SIU before the House Appro­ ported resting on her side, with priations subcommittee on budgets parts of her superstructure clearly for the Department of Health visible at low tide. She is well out Educaton and Welfare and Labor of the main shipping channel. Department, and testimony by the The Lawrencecliife Hall was SIU before the House Merchant about the same size as the Leecliffe Marine and Fisheries Committee. Hall, owned by the same company, Following the SIU denunciations which sunk last year a little farther of the proposed closing. Repre­ down the river with a loss of three sentative Gilbert introduced his lives. bill (H.R. 7268) to amend the 1936 SIU of Canada President Leonard Merchant Marine Act, so that 'Red" McLaughlin has asked the PHS hospitals could not be closed Canadian Government for a mini­ without the consent of both mum safe navigation watch on ves­ Houses of Congress. sels of 6,000 gross tons or over, such as the Lawrencecliife Hall, of At the present time, the bill is 1 licensed deck officer and 3 unli­ still pending before the House of I Pacific District-contracted President Polk (American President) began her maid­ censed men on deck and I licensed Representatives. en voyage on November 17, with calls scheduled at Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya, Japan; man and 2 unlicensed in the engine Another bill that would block room to help prevent such mishaps. Naha, Okinawa; Pusan, Korea; and Keelung, Taiwan. Construction of the Polk began in the closing of U.S.P.H.S. Hos­ On vessels under 6,000 gross tons March, 1964 and the vessel was launched in January, 1965. Like her sisterships, the Presi­ pitals was proposed by the late he called for i licensed and 2 un­ dent Monroe and President Harrison which will be delivered to APL during the next six Congressman Herbert C. Bonner licensed, on deck and 1 licensed ,(9,R. 8160). Thi^ bill, is flis.o pendr .months, the 23,ppP-ton,Polk is 564 feet, long,, 7^, feet,in the, b,eam, with, a cruising .sp.e.ed .of .. and 2' unlicensed dn the- engine ing before the Hyvu^e^.... , . . • • 11 ... i.i., 20.5 knots. : room. -. - Gift Of Life' Ship Collision President Polk's Maiden Voyage �Paf* Twtirm SEAFARERS Hmmbtr t9, INf LOG Union CioMs Temporary Ports Of Jacksonviiio and Miami While East Coast landlubbers from New York to Canada were blacked out as a con­ sequence of a major power failure recently, Seafarers aboard the Oceanic Cloud (Transworld Marine Corp.) were facing some power difficulties of their own. The Oceanic Cloud's emergency generator went> bad, causing some crewmem- Aboard the Ames Victory (Vic­ Western Comet (Western Tankers), bers on board to wonder tory Carriers Inc.) the members of Morning Light (Waterman Steam­ each department ship), Beauregard (Sea-Land, Au' have unanimously drew Jackson (Waterman Steam­ decided to award ship), Los Angeles (Sea-Land) their department Globe Carrier (Maritime Overseas) delegates with a 4" 4" 4 resounding vote According to ship's delegate of thanks. The de­ William Goff, the decks are buzzing serving delegates with excitement • i?: were William B. aboard the Sum' Dodd, ship's dele­ mlt (S e a 1 a n d gate, Eugene Service.) It all Dodd Dote, deck dele­ started When an gate, J. Rogers, engine delegate, all-hands motion and Leroy GuUey, stewards dele­ was made to raf­ gate. "It Is a tremendous thing fle off the crew's to see such accord and cooperation tv set. "Every­ between the crew and the dele­ body on board gates," says meeting secretary D. has taken at least Goff M. Woods. "This trip was solidly one chance on t 4" 4" It is not unusual aboard an SIU- within the SIU tradition." the set," says Brother Goff. "The manned vessel for the crew to drawing itself is scheduled to take 4" 4' award its dele­ Safety is always a major topic place sometime in the near future. gates with an all of discussion when Seafarers hold In fact, there is talk of a second raffle, in which crewmembers will hands vote of their shipboard take additional chances on guess­ thanks in appre­ meetings. The ing the winning number. Of ciation for a job Halcyon Panther course, as is the case on all SIU well done. But (Halcyon Steam­ ships, all raffle proceeds will go delegates sailing ship) crew is no into the ship's fund. the Los Angeles exception. "W e (Sea - Land) be­ 4 4 4 always make sure According to J. H. Shearer, lieve that ap­ to go over SIU preciation is a ship's delegate aboard the Calmar safety measures Bonefonf two - way street. (Calmar Steam­ and regulations Meeting secretary S. M. Simos re­ at every oppor­ ship Corp.), the Mitchell ports that deck delegate E. Bona- tunity," reports department dele­ fonte extended a hearty vote of ship's delegate William Mitchell. gates on board thanks to the entire deck depart­ Such procedures are often liter­ are tops. "This ment for their excellent work and ally a matter of life and death for has been a very Seafarers." The latest word in •smooth voyage cooperation during the voyage. safety precautions from the Hal­ and no one has i Seafarers sailing aboard the cyon Panther is a tip to new men come to me Robin Kirk (Robin Lines) were sad to keep all water-tight doors se­ with any beefs," to see their old curely closed during rough seas. Brother Shearer Shearer 4> 4> 4> pal and shipmate reports. "The de­ Tiny Lamourieux Seafarers sailing the Del Sud partment delegates have fully co­ pile off. "Tiny is (Delta Lines) take their shipboard operated and I want to thank them a good sailor, a political respon­ for a bang-up job." Meeting good Union mem­ sibilities serious­ secretary H. Carmichal agrees with ber, and an all ly. A motion has Brother Shearer, and further re­ around great been made and ports that the crew awarded a guy," says ship's accepted that tongue-in-cheek vote of thanks to everyone on the air conditioner which worked delegate A1 Her­ board who is not perfectly aill vojnage long. Hernandez nandez. "We are on duty shall at­ all going to miss 4 4 4 tend the Union him," Brother Hernandez declares. Del Norte (Delta Lines) crewmeetings. It was members gave Seafarer Salvador J. 4" 4" 4" further decided Aboard the Hurricane (Water­ Rallo a "great big Tucker that If the ship's man Steamship), Seafarers would round of ap­ delegate is scheduled for duty at rather fight than plause" for his the time of the meeting, someone switch. And if unselfish gener­ should make a full report of the mentholated cig­ osity and his proceedings to him. Delegates arettes are not kind considera­ serving aboard the Del Sud are: soon made avail­ tion of deprived Edward Avard, ship's delegate, able in the slop children, reports James Tucker, deck delegate, R. chest, the Himriship's meeting Coleman, engine delegate, James cane may have a Secretary Bill Gonzalez, topside stewards dele­ full scale mutiny Kaiser. Sal won Rallo gate, Vincent P. Pizzitolo, waiters on her hands. the old movie and messmens delegate, and Domi- projector, coming in first in the "We have a large Fltzpatrick nick DlGiovanni, galley delegate. arrival pool in New Orleans. Al­ contingency o f t 4 4" •peppermint stick' smokers on though he was offered top dollar board," announces ship's meeting Steward departments aboard the for the projector, he turned down chairmanD. B. Fltzpatrick. "And following vessels have been award­ all bids preferring to donate the they want their 'air-conditioned' ed the Seafarers Golden Galley machine to a New Orleans Chil­ cigarettes." According to rumor, Medal of Honor for chow and dren's Home that is without movie the menthol mutiny is being led service above and beyond the call equipment. The projector will be by bosun M. C. (WUUe the Pen­ of Duty: presented as a gift from the entire guin) Wells. Potomac (Empire Transport), Del Norte crew. whether the now famous grid sys­ tem that services the Northeastern Seaboard with electrical power did not somehow ex­ tend to the ships at sea. "Who knows?" says ship's delegate Andrew Lesnan­ sky. "These days anything is possi­ ble. Nothing, but nothing, would me." Lesnansky surprise The crew and captain are making plans to repair the faulty generator, which should be back in operation soon. The SIU's temporary port facilities in Jacksonville and Miami have been closed following membership approval of a reoommendation to suspend operations in the two Florida ports in the Interests of efficiency, ecmiomy and service. The mendierBhip voted to accept headquarters recommendation to close the Union halls in the two ports and transfer the vital parts of their opera­ tions to tho port of Tampa. Tho actlcm was taken at October membership meetings. . The report cited the fact that there no longer waa a necessity to keep the Union's facilities In Jacksonville and Miami open. It noted these were not classified as constitutional ports, and had been originally opened to aervo the specific needs of the member­ ship. The report stated' that these needs had changed to the point where one port averaged about one pay-off every seven weeks. Authority to close the two ports is contained in Article X, section 1(e) of the SIU-AGLIWD Constitution. This section pro­ vides the Union president with authority to designate the number and location of ports, and to open or close ports, ^uhject to approval by a majority vote of the membership. The section states that the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit may not be closed, except by constitutional amendment. COMMANDER (Marin* Carriers), October IT—Chairman, Ivan Ander­ son; Secretary, Donald McMillan. Some disputed OT In each depart­ ment to be brought to attention of patrolman. clarification. $10 in ship's fund. Lengthy discussion about new chief cook's cooking. Hand vote of crew showed unanimous disapproval and complaints. SACRAMENTO (Oriental Exporters), October 3—Chairman, W. P. Link; Secretary, H. Westphall. No beefs reported by department delegates. To write letter to headquarters about getting machine to make ice cubes. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), Octo­ ber 3—Chairman, R. F. Holder; Seeretaiy, H. A. Orlando. $4 in TV repair fund. Some disputed OT in deck de. partment Othenvise, no beefs, re­ ported. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. WESTERN HUNTER (Wastsm Tank­ er), October 10—Chairman, Hughiin Warren; Secretary, M. Haukland. $30.57 in ship's fund. Brother Camp­ PORTMAR (Calmar), October 17— Chairman, E. W. Nicholson; Secretary, C. R. Myrick. Ship'' delegate reported that all is O.K. No , beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to ship's delegate. FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), October 21—Chairman, Albert Mascello; Secretary, John Silva. Some disputed OT okayed by Captain to be put on next trip's sheets. bell's mother passed away and dona­ tions were taken up for flowers. Ship Is short of books and maga­ zines. Discussion on poor grade of meat. GENEVA (U.S. Steel), October I— Chairman, Richard Heffly; Secretary, Dutch Worth. Two men missed ship. No disputed OT reported by depart­ ment delegates. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service Tankers), October 10—Chairman C. W. Gabriel; Secretary, W. Toliver. All repairs have t>een taken care of. Disputed OT in engine department ALCOA MARKETER (Alcoa), October 17—Chairman, C. W. Hall; »cretary, S. Golden. Disputed OT for restric­ tion to ship in Pakistan and India. One man hospitalized in Djibouti. $6 in TV fund and $2.62 in ship's fund. Motion made to get port agent Buck Stephens, to pay ship off, if possible. Motion made to have ship fumigated for roaches. Motion made to have ice machine put on ship. WILD RANGER (Waterman), October 15—Cheirman, Luks A. Ciamboli; Sec­ retary, John Rassow. $28 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Ship's delegate re­ ported this was a good trip with good cooperation from entire crew. Dis­ puted OT for restriction to ship In Saigon. STEEL KINR (Isthmian), October 18—Chairman, Lan; Secretary, A. 0. Allain, Jr. One man hospitalized in Honolulu. Brother P. Wolff was elect­ ed to serve es ship's delegate. No boofs reportod by department dele­ gates. WESTERN CLIPPER (Western Ageney), October 1*—Chairman, R. Sohl; Secratafy, J. J. Guard. Ship'* slop cheat Is ebout empty. Disputed oT questions re delayed sailing have been mailed to headquarters for DEL SOL (Delta), October 6—Chair­ man, J. Tujague; Secretary, R. E. Steugh, Jr. All repairs were made except for a couple of minor ones. $34.25 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. Brother Tujague was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Motion made to im­ pose a fine or something to men quitting ship at last minute without notice (24 hours), causing ship to sail shorthanded. Patrolman to clar­ ify new contract for Firemen and Oilers. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain Lines), October 17—Chairman, R. Donnelly; Secretary, L. Blizzard. Ship's delegate reported that every­ thing is running fine. $43 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks extended to the electrician and fire­ man for installing TV antenna. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), October 22—Chairman, W. Thompson; Secretary, Juan Medina. Brother J. Gordian resigned as ship's delegate. Brother Fred B. Kritizler was delegate, to serve as new ship's delegate. Some disputed OT in engine depart­ ment to be turned over to patrolman. Ice mach'me is out of order and crew request triat patrolman contact tho company regarding a new ice ma­ chine. Fans in engine room not working. MERIDIAN VICTORV (Waterman), October 15—Chairman, L. Proffitt; Secretary, T. E. Yablonsky. Beefs in engine and steward departments, to be taken up with patrolman. One crewmember was removed from ship by American Consul in Saigon and hospitalized. Letter being sent to headquarters regarding same. RIOGEFIELO VICTORY (Columbia), October 10—Chairman, Michael Ooherty; Secretary, Al Schwartz. Wiro was sent to headquarters regarding no communications or LOGS received over three months. $12.50 collected to start ship's fund. One man hos­ pitalized in Manila and was re­ patriated to the States. Brother Al Schwartz was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Discussion on re­ pairs, roaches and shore leave which was denied by the Army. �KoTembtt i$, 1985 rue nfrfcai ''' SEAFARERM LOG Crewmembers aboard the Cuba Victory wave a cheerful farewell as their ship leaves for Viet Nam laden with supplies for the American war effort. Included in the contingent (from left to right) are Chief Mate Blackstone, and Seafarers Rockey Cassano. Henry Lawrence and Frank Teti. T Cuba Victory tied up in Baltimore awaiting trip to Viet Nam. SEAFARERS SPEED VIET RAM CARGO SlU for USA Juan Torres and Juan K. Connelly stand ready for shipping supplies. Seafarers Rocky Cassano, Tony Petrillo and Frank Teti en{oy a few moments of comraderie on deck. Three members of the SlU steward departmenMakei^rtiithe^^dec. before rolling up their sleeves for the 13,000 mile voyage to Viet Nam. All ratings pitched in to get the vessel ship shape for the vital trip. From left to right are Lawrence S. Robinson, Mario J. Long. Jr. and J. Rene. HE contributions tJiat Sea­ farers made to the U.S. defense effort during World War II and the Korean War is a matter of a record. They have always risen to the call of duty when their country was engaged in conflict. Sea­ lers are ready now, just as they were in years past, to sail the ships wherever vital de­ fense cargoes are needed. However, not much is heard about the effort that goes into preparing a vessel fresh out of the reserve fleet for the 13,000 mile trip to Vietnam. At the end of last summer, the Cuba Victory was simply another vessel that had been retired from the fleet of the United States. But that was before the SIU got the wheels rolling again. When the ship was pulled out of mothbsills, everything possi­ ble seemed to be wrong. En­ gine parts were missing or riisty or just plain not working, generators and motors were out of whack. The deck, winohers, booms, wheeHiouse, sleeping quarters, heads, lockers, hatches and portholes were covered with a preservative solution that had to be removed. The steward department walked into "the biggest mess" they had ever seen. Those few articles that weren't gone altogether were damaged and filthy. Sleeves Roll Up Then sleeves rolled up and everyl>ody got to work. The Bosun, A.B. and O.S. were ham­ mering and lifting and painting together—all looking the same due to their thick coat of grease that covered their faces. Crew members were working side by side with shipyard workers in all capacities. "You couldn't tell anybody apart," Deckman Anthony Petrillo said. "Engi­ neers, firemen, oilers and wipers joined the shdreside engineers. Plumbers, machin­ ists, carpenters and all depart­ ments tackled the job togetlier." Though each man had a dif­ ferent skill, they all were work­ ing for one purpose: to get the ship, moving wiith supplies for American soldiea-s in Viet Nam. Seafarers know when a ship comes out of mothballs, every­ one has their problems and headaches. Shipyard workers slave day and night. Engine parts were fixed, overhauled and replaced. Gen­ erators and motors were tuned; gauges and gadgets were re­ placed and fitted properly. Paints, oil and greases were put in the right places. Brand new fire fighting equipment was dis­ tributed and numbered through­ out the entire ship. The preservative solution proved to be quits a headache. it bad to come off one way or the other. After the solution had been cleared by loosening and prying, it had to be painted over. Then came the replacing of runners, lines, blocks and a new lookout bell. Big Day Arrvies At last the big day arrived. The Cuba Victory was taken out for a trial run with the Coast Guard inspectors watching care­ fully, perhaps a little doubtful. There had to have been quite a marked improvement on the ship for her to pass as sea­ worthy. The word came from topside that if the vessel passed the sea trial, she would go to anchor. Otherwise, she would be sent back to the shipyard. The Cuba Victory went to anchor with the congratulations of the Coast Guard. As they walked down the overhauled gangway, there was a new look in their eyes and a smile for the first time. They boarded a launch and shouted a familiar cry, "Bon Voyage, boys." The next morning the ship left for Bayonne, New Jersey, to begin picking up her cargo. Everything seemed to be working in order. Engines were rolling and booms were swing­ ing with longshoremen working day and night. Crate after orate was hoisted from the dock, swung onto the ship and loaded for the trip to Viet Nam. Inevitable Question And naturaly, someone asked the inevitable question: "Why do they call our ship the Cuba Victory" "That was the name they had on it during the second World War." Deckman Petrillo said. "Why didn't they change the name" the longshoreman asked. "Even though the communists have taken over in Cuba," Petrillo said, "we want to show them that our ship is still working for America, carrying supplies to our soldiers. We want to back up our president's words when he said. 'We will meet communist aggression all over the world. Despite the fact that we have named our ship after a country that condemns us, we are going to do our best to carry tlxis vital cargo 13 thousand miles." 'That makes good sense," the longshoreman replied. "Not a bad ship at all." The vessel's cargo was topped off in Baltimore, Maryland, with an SIU patrolman assist­ ing the crew to get off to a good start. With the engine repaired fresh stores, Frankie waving and our sailing-board marked "destination Viet Nam," the Cuba Victory slipped out of the Los Angeles harbor for the last point (rf the journey. �•. ** r- • p- •' Fsi^ Fourteen .. n \ .f R$ toe SEA FA Norember t9, 19M SlU Crew Take* Time Out For Chow Sister's Tribute To SIU Brother Tho LOG office recently received a letter and -Bpem from the sister of a young Seafarer who died and was buried at sea. A heart attack claimed the life of Brother Samuel A. Vincius, Jr., while he was serving aboard the Ohoctaw Victory (ColumWs Steamipsbip), enruote from Aden to Madrae. Vincius had been sailing with tho SIU for 19 years, touching nearly every port where American ships dock throughout the world. "Samuel always looked forward to visiting a foreign port," said his sister Joan Wedin, "but there were two favorites that made a lasting im­ pression on him, the ports of India and Aruba in the Netherland's Antilles. My brother and I were very close to each other," she said. "Often when we were young we talked and dreamed of going to sea together. 1 think this poem is a fitting epitaph for any man who dies at sea. The name of this tribute to my brother Is 'Destiny'." My brother went down to the sea one day. Signed on a ship that was bound for Bombay. All seven seas my brother had sailed, But his love for India had never failed. This vessel's name was "Destiny." About midday aboard tho Robin Locksley (Robin Line) tlio SlU crew begins filing into the mess hall for a sample of tho steward department's cooking. For today's menu it looks like roast pork, soup, fresh milk, vegetables. From left to right are Robert Leggo. Chang Ling and Frank Neston. - :—""-t Appreciates Help During Illness To the Editor: Both my wife and myself wish to thank you for the considera­ tion extended to us during my recent hospitalization. It was wonderful and words cannot ex­ press our gratitude. Gratefully yours, Leslie M. Morris friends very easilyv Once, I found that a Seafarer buddy of mine was in the hospital in Seattle with a busted kneecap. I was in New York then, but I sent a get-well card to cheer him up. A man needs all the help he can get when he's laid up in a strange port. Keep up the good work. Fraternally yours, M. H. Riley t. JUJCi ^ ^ Tliift f To ~ fLi w o,-r AH letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. Log Locates Sick Friend To the Editor: I enjoy reading the Log and look forward to its arrival twice every month. The articles are good, and it's nice to learn what old friends are doing and where they are. A man shipping out regularly can lose track of t. Wants 14(b) Repealed To the Editor: I would like to record my protest against the scuttling of the repeal of 14 (b) of the TaftHartley Act. Repeal of See. 14(b) is essential to the welfare of the labor movement in the United States. Yet a handful of Senators using the outmoded filibuster succeeded in blocking the wish of the majority. The repeal bill would have easily passed had it been allowed to come to a vote. Let's all hope that the repeal of 14(b) will be the first order of business when Congress meets again next year. Fraternally yours, Michael McLeod Old Buddies Get Together The cargo was loaded, the crew all signed on— The anchor pulled up and the gang plank brought on. The weather toas clear, the ship slowly moved out. Out of the channel, into the Bay . . . Out went "The Destiny" into the sea's spray. But Death had signed on as a member of the crew. Benares, Calcutta and Madras too. He would sail thru storm and Hell-fire too. When the ship was bound up the Arabian Sea, To that Port in India, the Port of Bombay. But Death was a passenger aboard "The Destiny." Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions iu volved, and will be amended from time to time.) "Lee" brand tires (United Rubber, Cork-, Linoleum St Plastic Workers) 3; ^ $ Eastern Alt Lines (Flight Engineers) $ t H. I. Slegel "HIS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers 4» 4i Sears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (Retail Clerks) The ship left Aden on the Arabian Sea, Bound for Madras, via Bombay. Death came, too soon, too soon, and took my brother away. Before the ship ever dropped anchor at The Port of Bombay. My brother had sailed on many ships O'er many seas, sailed he. But of all the ports of all this world. My brother loved India on the Arabian Sea. Now he had sailed with Death, aboard "The Destiny." The Captain bid my brother farewell. The crew stood silent as they committed their mate t» Heaven or Hell. Down into the sea, the Arabian Sea— My brother now sleeps there, waiting for me. Death had been a passenger aboard "The Destiny." Dear Lord of the seas and the winds and the tides. Be merciful, please, to this sailor who has died. Carry him please to the Port of Bombay, And there leave him he while waiting for me. 'Till Death and I can book passage aboard "The Destiny." A Big Smile At Pay-Off Time Stltzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," "W. L. Weller" Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) 4" $• J. R. Slmplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) i t Kingsport Press "World Book," "ChUdcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Jamestown Sterling Corp. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) $1 $• Empire State Bedding Co. "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) 4" When the Transorleans and the Hanover pulled into port at Bombay, fwo old buddies got together for a couple of cold ones. On the left Brother Richard "Windy" Tolar, and on the right Brother John W. Mdcolm^ 4« 4" Pepsi Cola Company (Soft Drink Workers, Local 812) 4^ 4^ White Furniture Co. United Furniture Workers of America Pay-off time is a tim# for smiles on the Andrew Jackson, as bills pass hands and the crew prepares to go ashore. Pic­ tured from left to right are Captain F. McNaught. Bosun Thomot J. Hflburn and "Frdncfiy" De Boissibre. �Face Flitcoi loe N*Tenber M, INS of Final Departures Hanr G. Reynidda, S9: Brother Reynolds succumbed to cancer at the Baltimore USPHS Hospital. A member of the deck department^ he joined tho Union in 1947. He is survived by his Mother, Mrs. Jessie F. Rey­ nolds. Brother Reynolds was buried at the Gravel Springs Cemetery in Frederick County, Virginia. 4 4 4. James C. Brown, 50: Brother Brown died of accidental causes while sailing aboard the Mon­ arch of the Seas. A member of the steward depart­ ment, he Joined the Union in 1940. He is sur­ vived by his brother, Burnett A. Brown. Place of burial was Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama. Edward Levy Wells, 45: Brother Wells, succumbed to heart disease at the New Or­ leans USPHS Hospital. Joining the Union in 1959, he sailed in the steward de­ partment. Broth­ er Wells is sur­ vived by his wife, Dollie. He was buried in the Providence Memorial Park Ceme­ tery in New Orleans, Louisiana. 4 4 4 Leoncio S. Maisonet, 65: Brother Maisonet died of natural causes at the Lincoln Hos­ pital in Bronx, New York. A member of the engine depart­ ment, he joined the Union in 1943. Brother Maisonet is sur­ vived by his wife, Jovita R. Maiso­ net. Burial took place in the St. Raymonds Cemetery in the Bronx, New York. SIU Arrivals Erik in Honolulu Thomas James Malone M-702 You are asked to contact Wil­ You are requested to contact liam Scott. He has your money, but Robert Carte at 740 San Felipe not your address. If you cannot Avenue, San Bruno, California. reach him, you may place your 4 4 4 address with the LOG. Wilson Torres 4 4 4 You are requested to contact George Pickels Angel. R. Santana at 30 Garnet You are requested to contact Street, Brooklyn 31, New York, your attorney Paul M. Goldstein Telephone: 522-1481. at 1201 Chestnut Street, Phila­ 4 4 4 delphia, Pennsylvania, or call Donald L. Jones PB-30728 LOcuSt 3-0560. You are requested to contact 4 4 4 your mother Mrs. L. B. Jones at Andreau Migliore You are asked to contact your 2284 Washington Street, Eugene, cousin A. Migliore at 1315 44th Oregon. Street, Brooklyn, New York, Tele­ 4 i 4 phone, TR 1-4107. Tim McCarthy 4 4 4 You are asked to get in touch Yrjo R. Tallberg T-223 with your daughter Ann at 283 You are asked to contact your East 8th Street, South Boston, wife. Mass., care of Nagle, apt. "#133. Cleo L. Dwrec, Mi Brother Dupree died of aoeldental causes while sailing aboard the Ban­ gor (Bermuda Shipping). A member of the Union since 1968, he served in the steward depart­ ment. Brother Dupree was bur­ ied at sea. No beneficiary was designated. 4 4 4 Robert Luther Wiseman, 56: Brother Wiseman succumed to a heart attack at the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Joining the Union in 1946, he served in the steward depart­ ment. Brother Wiseman is sur­ vived by his wife, Lila Wiseman. Burial took place in the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-the-Hudson, New York. TRUST FUNDS. AU trust fundi of the SIU AtlanUc. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered In accordance with the provisions Of various trust fund agreements. AU these agreements specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shaU consist equally of union and management representatives and their alternates. AU expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. AU trust fund financial records are avaUable at the headquartera of the varloui trust funds. SHIPPINO RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected, exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and avaU­ able In all Union haUs. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained In the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Boarii by certified maU. return receipt requested. The proper address for thla la: Earl Shepard, Chairman. Seafarers Appeals- Board 17 Battery Place. Suite 1930. New York 4. N.Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at aU times. •Ither by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Anpeala Board. eoNTRACTS. Copies of aU SIU contracts are avaUabla In aU SIU baUa. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and Uve aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as weU as your obligations, •ucb as filing for OT on the proper sheets and In tha proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAPARBRE LOO. Tha LOG has tradiUonaUy refrained from puhUshlng any article serving the poUtical purposes of any Individual In the Union, officer or member. It lias also refrained from pubUshlng articles deemed harmful to the Union or Its coUectlve memtiershlp. This estabUahed poUcy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September. 1960, meetings in aU constitutional ports. The responslbUlty for LOG poUcy Is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Fixecutlve Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among Its ranks, ona Individual to carry out this responslbUlty. Heosten ......Dee. 11—2:36 New Orleans . Dee. 14—2:36 Mobile Dee. 15—2:36 Wilmington Dee. 20—2 Ban Franeisee .. Dee. 22—2 Seattle Dee. 24—2 4 4 P.M. P.M. FJW. FM. P.M. P.M. 4 GrMt Lakes SlU Meetings Detroit Dec. Alpena .Dec. Buffalo Dec. Chicago Dee. Cleveland Dee. Duluth Dec. Frankfort ....... .Dee. 4 4 6—2 6—7 6—1 6—7 6—7 6—7 6—7 P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. 4 OREAT LAKES TUG AND DREDGE REGION Detroit Dec. 13—7:30 P.M. MUwaukeo .. .Deo. 13—7:30 P.M. Chicago Deo. 14—7:30 P.M. Rafael P. Amat, born September 9, Gina Rodriguez, born September 30, 1965, to the Carlos Rodrlguezs, New 1965, to the Ralph C. Amats, New Orleans, Louisiana. Orleans, Louisiana. Baffaio Dee. tSR'tSte.Marie Dee. DolBtli Dee. CSeTcUiBd ...Dee. Toledo Dee. 4 4 15—7:36 16—7:36 17—7:36 17—7:36 17—7:36 P.M. P.BL PJL P.M. P.BL 4 SIU Inland Boatmen's Union PUUdelphlt Dee. 7—5 P.M. Baltimore Oieensed and noUeensed) Dec. 8—^5 Houston Dec. 13—5 Norfolk Dec. 9—5 New Orleena ... .Dec. 14—S MobUe Dec. 15—5 4 4 F.M. PJII. P.M. P.M. P.M. 4 RAILWAY MARINE REGION Jersey City Dec. 13—16 PhiUdelpbia Dec. 14—10 Baltimore Dee. 15—10 •Norfolk Dec. 16—10 4 4 A.M. & 8 P.M. A.M. & 8 P.M. A.M. ft 8 P.M. A.M. ft 8 PJ». 4 United Industrial Workers New York Baltimore .. Philadelphia 4:Hoaston ... MobUe New Orleans Dec. 6—7 . • .Dec. 8—7 ....Dec. 7—7 .. Dec. 13—7 .. .Dee. 14—7 .. .Dec. 15—7 P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Michael Petrantes, born October 29, Jacqueline Sovich, born October 15, 1965, to the Michael Sovichs, Bayville, 1965, to the Stavros Q. Petrantes, Mobile Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Galveston wharves. Alabama. New Jersey. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Dee Anna Roach, born October 14, 1965, Frank Selby, born August 18, 1965, to the Edward J. Roachs, Orange, Texas. to the Joe 0. Selbys, Gilmer, Texas. Roxanne Gebbia, born August 28, 1965, Laura Curry, born July 29, 1965, to the Ralph H. Currys, Plaquemine, Louisiana. to the Peter Gebblas, Folsom, Louisiana. " Curtis Ray, born August 2, 1965, to the Angela Kirk, born September 8, 1965, to the Wesley A. Kirks, Belhaven, North Carl H. Rays, Port Neches, Texas. Carolina. 4 4 4 Reina Sandoval, born October 15, 1965, 4 4 4 Jeanette Perez, born September 25, to the Juan M. Sandovals, Baltimore, 1965, to the Jose D. Perezs, Manhattan, Maryland. New York. 4 4 4 Thomas Edward, born October 12, 1965, 4 4 4 Angela Bridges, born August 31, 1965, to the Harry Whitleys, Galveston, Texas. to the Billy J. Bridges, Clifton, Tennessee. 4 4 4 Patrick Sloan, born September 18, 1965, 4 4 4 Anthony Benites, bom October 2, 1965, to the Joseph Sloqns, Philadelphia, Penn­ sylvania. to the John Benitezs, Tampa, Florida. Directory Of UNION HALLS SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT 4 4 4 4 4 4 Paul Hall Rosalind Wright, bom August 13, 1965, Stoney Marvin Henry, Ixirn September 14, 1965, to the Jimmy H. Henrys, Chan- to the Bertrand Wrights, Mobile, Alabama. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT nelvlew, Texas. Cal Tanner 4 4 4 4 4 4 William Sachs, bom October 28, 1965, VICE PRESIDENTS Benjamin Lozano, born August 21, 1965, to the Bernard Sachs, Baltimore, Mary­ Earl Shepard Lindsey Williams land. to the Ben Loza'ios, Orange, Texas. Al Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Bklyn. HY 9-6600 ALPENA, Mich 127 River St. EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, Md. ...1216 E. Baltimore St. PAYMENT OP MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone In any EA 7-4900 official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt Is given for BOSTON, Mass 177 State St. same. Under no circumstance should any member pay any money tor any Ri 2-0140 reason unless he Is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to BUFFALO, N.y. 735 Washington St. require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or If a TL 3-9259 member Is required to make a payment and Is given an official receipt, but CHICAGO, III 9383 Ewing Ave. feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this SA 1-0733 should immediately be reported to headquarters. CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes MA 1-5450 every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of Us constitu­ DETROIT, Mich. ..10225 W. Jefferson Ave. tion. In addition, copies are available in aU Union haUs. AU membera VI 3-47''1 should obtain copies of this constitution to at to famUlarlze themselves DULUTH, Minn ... 312 W. 2nd SL with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer la attempting RA 2-4110 to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as aU other details, then the 415 Main St. member so affected should Immediately notify headquarters. EL 7-2-"'l HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing dlsabUlty-penslon . WA 8-3207 benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2608 Pearl St. f .eluding attendance at membership meetings. And like aU other SIU mem­ EL 3-0-7 bers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in JERSEY CITY, N.J. ...99 Montgomery SL ail rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. HE 3-0104 Because these oldtlmera cannot take shipboard employment, the membership MIAMI, Fla 744 W. Flagler .<5L has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of aUowing them to retain FR 7-35S4 their good standing through the waiving of their dues. MOBILE, Ala 1 South Lawrence St. EQUAL RIGHTS. AU Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights In employment HE 2-1754 and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly aet forth In the SIU NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jackson Ave. constitution and in the contracts which the Union hat negotiated with the Tel. 529-7546 employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. of race, creed, color, national or geographlo origin. If any member feels Tel. 622-1892 that he Is denied the equal rights to which he Is entitled, he should notify PHILADELPHIA, Penna. . 2604 S. 4th St. DE 6-3818 headquarters. PORT ARTHUR, Tex. .1348 Seventh St. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the baslo rtghta SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 350 Freemont St. of Seafarers Is the right to pursue legislative and poUtlcal objectives which DO 2-4401 will serve the best Interests of themselves, their famlUes and their Union. SANTURCE, P.R. 1313 Fernandez Juncos To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers PoUtical Activity Donation was Stop 20 established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the Tel. 724-2848 fund.<i through which legislative and political activities are conducted for SEATTLE, Wash 2505 First Avenue the benefit of tha membership and the Union. MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo. 805 Del Mar If at any tima a Seafarer feels that any of the abeva rights have been CE 11434 violated, or that ha has been denied hit constitutional right of access to TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. Union records or Information, he should Immediataly notify SIU Presldanf Tel. 229-2788 Paul Hall at hoadquartors by cerllflad mall,, raturn rocolpt roquostod. WILMINGTON, Calif. . 505 N. Marine Ave. ' ' • TE 4-2528 Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. Tho constitution of the SIU Atlantic. Gidf. Lakea and Inland Watera District makes specific provision for safeguarding tha membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and flip auditing committee elected by the memberaKlp. All Union records are available at SIU headquartera In Brooklyn. ilU'AOLIWDMMHngs New Teck Dee. f—t:U PJW. Phllaielphie .. .Dee. 7—2:tf P.M. Balttaiere Dee. 9—2:36 P.M. Detrell Dee. 16-2:16 Pif. �SEAFARERS LOG Nov. M 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN or THE SEAFARERt INTii^NAriCNAL UNION • AKAN.TIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • Gefting the necessary training in case of an emergency aboard ship, SlU Lifeboat Class No. 141 lift their oars in anticipation of orders from Instructor Ami Bjornsson. The instruction, which takes place at Mill Basin in Brooklyn, New York, ranges from classroom sessions to the actual launching, rowing and securing of lifeboats. AFL-GIO Members of the graduating class listen Intently as Instructor Bjornsson explains the proper use of the oil cone and sea anchor. The device is used in a heavy sea to keep bow of boat pointed into wind. SEAFARERS LIFEBOAT SCHOOL Seafarers Lifeboat School Facilities Students at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship study the proper use of the sea painter. L.. Pablo Rivera gains useful experience in the handling of line when tying lifeboat to the dock during instruction session. ' : SlU Lifeboat class pays close attention as Instructor Bjornsson points out effects of life­ boat commands. ,, . Robert Feliciano stands on bow of lifeboat as Bjornsson shouts command to crew manning the . oars., . ,. THE RECENT sinking of the cruise ship Yar' mouth Castle points out the importance of every Seafarer knowing proper rescue tech­ niques and procedures for lifeboat handling. One of the obvious lessons that has emerged from the Yarmouth Castle disaster is that the ability to handle a lifeboat can spell the differ­ ence between lives saved or tragedy in an emergency at sea. A major part of the SlU's continuing cam­ paign for increased shipboard safety has em­ phasized that every SlU member should obtain the necessary training to earn a lifeboat endorsement. Not only does an SiU member owe it to himself to learn the skills which can mean the difference between his own life and death in an emergency at sea, but his knowledge of proper lifeboat procedures often enables him to save the lives of others. Every Seafarer can recall countless instances when lifeboat skills meant that certain tragedy was averted. A little over a year ago the crew of the Globe Explorer escaped without a casu­ alty when their vessel was destroyed in a sud­ den fire off the northeast coast of the United States. SIU lifeboat training was credited with the successful rescue of over 80 survivors from the burning Greek passenger liner Lakonia by Union crewmembers aboard the Rio Grande. These are just a few of the instances in which know-how and skill achieved through SIU life­ boat training paid off in lives saved from cer­ tain death. SIU members who sail in the deck department have an added, important reason for securing a lifeboat ticket, since Coast Guard regulations make passing the-lifeboat test a requirement for obtaining an able bodied seaman's rating. The SIU has tailored its lifeboat program to make obtaining a lifeboat endorsement as easy as possible. The Lifeboat School of the Harry Lundeberg 'School of Seamanship conducts a course at New York headquarters leading to a lifeboat ticket. ' interested Seafarers are urged to contact their port agent for information about , enrolling in the school.. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource November 26, 1965 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU CALLS FOR NLRB CONTROL OVER RUNWAY CREWS IN U.S. TRADES SIU OF CANADA SHIP SINKS – NONE INJURED SIU GREAT LAKES SISTRICT SIGNS NEW 3-YEAR CONTRACT THE YARMOUTH CASTLE DISASTER GARMATZ URGES SHIP BREAKOUT SHIPBUILDER CONFERENCE SIU URGES NLRB CONTROL OF RUNAWAY-FLAG CREWS ENGAGED IN U.S. TRADE SEAFARER THANKS US USPHS HOSPITAL FOR GIFT OF LIFE PAY-OFF – STEEL ROVER MAJOR GAINS WON IN NEW SIU GREAT LAKES PACT AMERICAN LABOR AND BRITISH LABOR – OUR COMMON PURPOSE MOVES UNDERWAY TO MAKE MARAD INDEPENDENT AGENCY ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS FALL AS BUSINESS PROFITS SOAR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH HIGH ON INLAND WATERWAYS IN 1965 SEAFARERS SPEED VIETNAM CARGO – SIU FOR USA SEAFARERS LIFEBOAT SCHOOL Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/26/1965 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXVII, No. 25 1965 Periodicals Seafarers Log